Presenting the Volkswagen Group.
| The largest car producer in EuropeThe Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2006, the Group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 5.734 million (2005: 5.243 million), corresponding to a 9.7 percent share of the world passenger car market. In Western Europe, the largest car market in the world, nearly every fifth new car (19.9 percent) comes from the Volkswagen Group. Group sales rose in 2006 to 104.9 billion Euros (2005: 95.3 billion). Profit after tax in the 2006 financial year amounted to 2.75 billion Euros (2005: 1.12 billion). |
Eight brands with own charactersThe Group is made up of eight brands from six European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, Skoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Each brand has its own character and operates as an independent entity on the market. The product range extends from low-consumption small cars to luxury class vehicles. In the commercial vehicle sector, the product offering spans pick ups, busses and heavy trucks. | |
44 manufacturing facilities in 18 countries worldwide
The Group operates 44 production plants in twelve European countries and a further six countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. Around the world, almost 325,000 employees produce over 24,500 vehicles or are involved in vehicle-related services each working day. The Volkswagen Group sells its vehicles in more than 150 countries. It is the goal of the Group to offer attractive, safe and environmentally sound vehicles which are competitive on an increasingly tough market and which set world standards in their respective classes. |
