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Martin Winterkorn’s contract with VW officially renewed

The recent speculations about the Martin Winterkorn's contract with Volkswagen got confirmed today when the actual VW Chief renewed his contract with the German group for the next five years. Martin Winterkorn managed to renew his agreement with the Germans from Volkswagen, an agreement which will expire in 2016. Until then, the Chairman of the Board of Management will continue...

VW Tiguan Assembly Line
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VW Group has big investment plans for the future

The Germans at Volkswagen came out with a pretty interesting announcement; they plan to invest no less than 51.6 billion euros in their Automotive division. There's more too, VW Group plans to invest this sum over the short period of five years. According to VW CEO, Mr. Martin Winterkorn, this sort of investments are going to be made in order...

The signing ceremony for Guangdong Project
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Volkswagen Group are going to build a new factory in China

Volkswagen Group have recently announced their plans to expand production capacities in China with the construction of a new automotive plant which is to be located in Foshan, in the Southern Chinese region of Guangdong. The new plant is scheduled to begin operations around the middle of 2013, sporting a capacity of 300.000 vehicles produced yearly. VW boss, Martin Winterkorn,...

Martin Winterkorn shaking hands with founder Giorgetto Giugiaro
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Rumor no more, VW buys Italdesign Giugiaro

You may remember the reports of a possible buying of Italdesign Giugiaro by Volkswagen AG and I am pleased to see some confirmation on the situation as the German group announced the future purchase a controlling stake today. The official figure desired by VW is a whopping 90.1% of the Italian design and engineering company. Volkswagen Group have will be...