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12 5.21 to 5.26.2018 Supplier D riven by the recovery of Brazilian vehicle production, Bosch closed last year with a 7% increase in its Latin American revenues, which totaled R$ 6.1 billion. According to its president Besaliel Botelho, the positive result reversed two years of decline in revenues: “We are growing in the region again.” Brazil, responsible for 80% of Latin American businesses, recorded R$ 4.9 billion in sales. The mobility area, which includes the automotive business, is the most relevant within the Bosch Group, which also operates in the area of consumer goods, industrial technology, energy and building technology. As it represents 65% of the sales in the region, the resumption of the automotive industry in Brazil was fundamental for this resumption in growth. Bosch grows in Latin America again André Barros | andrebarros@autodata.com.br