Volkswagen Cuts Back Golf Target
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Volkswagen AG has reduced the 2005 production target for its top-selling Golf compact by more than 10 percent because of Europe's sluggish auto market, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
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LONDON, October 7  - Volkswagen AG (VOW.ETR) has appointed Wolfgang Bernhard, a former Chief Operating Officer at DaimlerChrysler&#39;s Chrysler unit, to turn around the sales of the Volkswagen brand, which accounts for half of the company&#39;s
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German car maker Volkswagen  said on Tuesday its sales in the United States fell 7.2 percent year-on-year in September to 20,082 vehicles.
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FRANKFURT Volkswagen, plucking a fallen star from a rival carmaker, announced Wednesday that Wolfgang Bernhard, a former DaimlerChrysler executive known for his cost-cutting skills and new-product flair, would take over its ailing flagship car brand.
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The head of personnel at Volkswagen AG said the automaker will have to make dramatic reductions in jobs in Germany if it doesn't get the labor-cost savings it wants in ongoing wage talks, a newspaper reported ...
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Shares in Volkswagen VOWG.DE fell   more than 2 percent on Monday ahead of a vote by German   metalworkers union IG Metall on whether to reopen its contract   with Europe's biggest carmaker.
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Automaker Volkswagen AG said Wednesday that it plans to offer new discounts in Germany on its revamped Golf model as it tries to reach its 2004 sales target, making another departure from the company's resistance to price-cutting.
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German automaker Volkswagen AG said Friday it will cut investment in auto operations by 6 percent over the next two years and reshuffle its management board as part of an overall reorganization process meant to trim costs.
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Management and unions at Volkswagen have sat down for talks about a vast cost-cutting programme, including the loss of up to 20,000 jobs and the abolition of the four-day week for the German workers of Europe's biggest car maker.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker, faces production losses at its Wolfsburg headquarters after a sixth set of contract talks with union negotiators on cost cuts, job security and pay ended without agreement.
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Volkswagen narrowed its North American first-half loss by reducing discounts and warranty claims and concentrating on sales of the most profitable models, the company said. Volkswagenâs sales have fallen this year in the United States as the company prepares new models for 2008. The company sold 91,743 vehicles in the United States in the first five months, a 4.4 percent drop from a year earlier. Sales in 2007 will be flat, Mr. Hallmark said.
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Volkswagen  plans to prices  its vehicles in the U.S. market more aggressively and drop  costly features many customers there don't want, Chief  Executive Martin Winterkorn was quoted as saying.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s largest carmaker, reported a seventh consecutive decline in quarterly profit as domestic demand weakened and sales growth in China slowed, making the full-year profit target harder to reach.
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The European Union's highest court struck down a German law shielding Volkswagen AG from hostile takeovers, clearing a path for Porsche AG to increase its influence Â and possibly even take control Â at Europe's biggest automaker.
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Volkswagen AG's profit fell 31 percent in 2004 as the German automaker fought headwinds from the weak dollar in the U.S. market and sluggish consumer spending at home.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker, may cut 30,000 jobs, or almost a fifth of its German workforce, if the labour union representing workers does not agree to a wage
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General Motors&#39; loss-making European division is to cut 12,000 jobs in a bid to save $665m (Â£347m) annually. The redundancies will affect a fifth of its workforce, with 10,000 positions going at Opel plants in Germany.