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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
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NAICS Code Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing: 336211
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Porsche board okays merger contract with Volkswagen
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Magna shares up more than 7%
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Saft Groupe SA Reports Quarterly Financial Information for the Third Quarter of 2009
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VW and MIT Introduce In-Car Robot
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VW sees tough year-end; Mazda ups FY target
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Breaking News: VW to buy into Karmann, create new model
BNET
- 2009-11-20
Volkswagen says it will buy some assets of contract car-builder Wilhelm Karmann to create a manufacturing subsidiary that will eventually build a new car model. German carmaker Volkswagen says it will buy some assets of German contract car-builder Wilhelm Karmann to create a manufacturing subsidiary that will eventually build a...
VW board agree Porsche integration
BNET
- 2009-11-20
Volkswagen said on Friday its supervisory board had paved the way for the planned integration of Porsche as its 10th marque, a move that will bring a further push to its aim to surpass Toyota as the world's largest carmaker by 2018. VW's board members approved a set of contracts...
Breaking News: Ford, Subaru, VW top US safe car list
BNET
- 2009-11-18
Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the US insurance industry's annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment. Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the US insurance industry's annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies...
Ford, Subaru lauded for safety
BNET
- 2009-11-18
WASHINGTON ? Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the insurance industry?s annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies to lure safety-conscious consumers to showrooms. The Virginia-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded its ?top safety pick? today to 19 passenger...
Ford, Subaru, VW win top safety picks
BNET
- 2009-11-18
WASHINGTON - Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the U.S. insurance industry's annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies to lure safety-conscious consumers to showrooms. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded its "top safety pick" on Wednesday to 19...
Volkswagen sales up 11%
BNET
- 2009-11-13
FRANKFURT ? German car maker Volkswagen AG said Friday that its group deliveries were up 11 percent on the year in October, helped by strong increases in China and Brazil and a smaller rise in the U.S. Volkswagen said the group delivered 557,300 cars last month, compared with 501,500 in...
Volkswagen hit by Qatar sale
Financial Times
- 2009-11-10
Volkswagen shares slid after Qatar Holdings said that it would sell up to 25m of its preference shares in the German carmaker.The sovereign wealth fund announced in a statement that it was selling half of its 50m shareholding "to enhance the liquidity" of VW's preference stock, or about a...
Breaking News: Volkswagen net income falls 85%
BNET
- 2009-10-31
German carmaker Volkswagen AG says net income for the third quarter fell 85 per cent as the global downturn affected demand for its cars and trucks. German carmaker Volkswagen AG says net income for the third quarter fell 85 percent as the global downturn affected demand for its cars and...
VW Sees Tough Year-end; Mazda Ups FY Target
Reuters
- 2009-10-29
By Chang-Ran Kim and Christiaan HetznerTOKYO/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe's largest carmaker Volkswagen VOWG said business remained tough after third-quarter earnings plunged on Thursday, while Japan's Mazda predicted a smaller full-year operating loss.French carmaker Renault also published a drop in third quarter sales, but the year-on-year fall was less steep...
MIT, Volkswagen's In-Car Personal Robot Thinks You're Driving Like a Maniac
BNET
- 2009-10-29
An MIT Media Lab robot not AIDA via glemak on Flickr My parents already treat the GPS on their car like it's a person: "Shh! She's talking!" Now researchers at the MIT Media Lab, in partnership with Audi, want...
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