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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$120.4B

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Helping you 'Arrive'! Volkswagen AG ( German: VOW) is one of the leading automobile manufacturers in the world. Number one in Europe, it produces over 5.2 million cars, trucks, and vans annually. Some of its models are Passat, Touareg, Phaeton, Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti. It operates plants in Africa, the Americas, the Asia/Pacific region, and Europe and it is sold in about 150 countries. This $121.3 billion company is based in Wolfsburg, Germany and employs about 342,500 people. In March 2006 the company's Supervisory Board approved the sale of wholly-owned subsidiary Europcar to the French investment group Eurazeo

Number of Employees 369,928

Contact Information

Brieffach 1848 2

Wolfsburg

www.volkswagena...

(49) 536190

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NAICS Code Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing: 336211

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Audi AG Chief Rupert Stadler to join Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

11/28/09 - Board Member - Entering - View Story
MAN finance chief to step down

11/27/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - CEO - View Story
Magna seeks compensation from Porsche: report

11/26/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
U.S. Stocks Up; Central Banks Diversify

11/26/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
German carmaker Volkswagen to buy some assets of German contract carmaker Karmann

11/22/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Auto cos seek Indian HNIs with mind-boggling prices

11/22/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
VW to buy Karmann assets, create new model

11/20/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Higher Losses at German Banks; Porsche Loss

11/26/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
UPDATE 1-VW board set to approve Porsche contracts - sources

11/16/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
EDTA - This Week in EV-Motoring

11/13/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Other - View Story
European Markets Decline; VW Drops 6%

11/25/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
New Kings of the Road

11/10/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Volkswagen Beetle launch in India next month

11/08/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
'Beetle' to hit Indian roads in December

11/09/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Integrated automotive group: Volkswagen will take a 49.9 per cent stake in Porsche AG in...

11/07/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
RLPC-UPDATE 1-Porsche pushes to agree 8.5 bln eur loan-bankers

11/06/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Porsche board okays merger contract with Volkswagen

11/20/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

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VOLKSWAGEN STILL TOPPED RANK OF AUTOMAKERS IN H1

- 2005-07-14

AsiaInfo Services 07-14-2005 Volkswagen Still Topped Rank of Automakers in H1 CHINA, Jul 14, 2005 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Volkswagen was still atop the rank of automakers with H1 sales of 265,000 vehicles and an 18% market share, said VW China...

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VOLKSWAGEN CHALKS UP SLIGHTLY BETTER SALES.

- 2005-01-18

Europe's biggest car maker, Volkswagen VW of Germany, reports a slight increase in sales last year, in line with the target, but its performance is still at a low ebb. This also applies to its range of luxury vehicles Audi. The VW group's sales r Europe's...

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People.(McCann-Erickson Inc.'s Amanda Irvine gets promoted)(Viacom Inc.'s Jesus Lara joins EMI Music)(Volkswagen AG's Gerd Klauss retires)(Brief Article)

- 2004-11-08

Gerd Klauss, president-CEO of Volkswagen of America, will retire at year's end, the automaker said. Mr. Klauss, whose responsibilities are for both Audi of America and VW in the U.S. and Canada, joined the automaker in 1992 as the VP in charge of Aud Gerd Klauss,...

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