Focus on automotive: Volkswagen
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07/24/2018The Volkswagen Group, which recently illustrated its growth plan in India with investments of 1 billion euros and focus on the Skoda brand, has announced that it will increase its production rates by 20 thousand units at its local Pune plant, bringing them to 200 thousand units a year.Also in Pune, the German giant will build a new design center... -
07/19/2018The Volkswagen Group has closed the first semester registering 1.99 million cars in China (including also Hong Kong), equal to an increase of 9.2% over the same period last year.The manager of the Group's local activities, Jochem Heizmann, is very satisfied with the Chinese sales trend and always according to Heizmann the second part of 2018 will... -
07/18/2018On July 15th, ten years ago, the local authorities and top managers of the German Group officially announced the start of the project for the new Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, thanks to an initial investment of about 1 billion dollars with a workforce of around 2,000 employees.Now the investments in the factory have grown to 2.3... -
07/17/2018Also thanks to the active contribution of the Volkswagen Group, the Chinese First Auto Works closed the first half of the year, increasing local registrations by 7.1% compared to the same period of 2017 for a total of 1,712,506 units.Apart from the good performance of the Hongqi, Besturn, Junpai and Xenia brands, the FAW Group was driven mainly... -
07/13/2018On the occasion of the official visit of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang to Germany, Volkswagen Group China signed a memorandum of understanding with the established local partner FAW Group and the China Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Research Institute of Beijing to accelerate the planned offensive in the main market in the world focused... -
07/06/2018The Executive Director of the Volkswagen R division, Jost Capito, has announced that the company active since 2002 (when the Golf R32 debuted) has cut the milestone of 200 thousand units produced.The milestone unit, a Golf R with the Performance Pack, was delivered to a British customer at a ceremony held at the Robinsons Volkswagen Peterborough.... -
07/04/2018The South African division of Volkswagen is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the production debut of the Golf in the African market.Launched for the first time in 1974, four years later (May 1978), the first Golf was assembled at the South African factory in Uitenhage, immediately achieving an extraordinary success so much so that already in...