Net profit drops 31 percent in 2004 at German automaker Volkswagen
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BERLIN Volkswagen says its full-year net profit fell 31 percent in 2004. The German automaker fought headwinds from the weak dollar and sluggish consumer spending in Germany.
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Ford Motor Co.  on Tuesday said earnings will fall this year due to a drop in profit from its finance unit, which it expects to be hit by rising interest rates.
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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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Volkswagen AG reported a 65 percent drop in third-quarter net profit from the same period a year ago amid fiercely competitive markets and difficult economic conditions such as a strong euro and high oil prices.
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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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Automaker DaimlerChrysler AG said Wednesday its overall profit fell 14 percent in the second quarter, but that profits rose from its Chrysler Group and the related financial services business in North America.
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Volkswagen AG has reduced this year's 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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AutoNation Inc., the nation's largest automotive retailer, said Thursday its fourth-quarter earnings fell 31 percent, largely because of a decline in vehicle sales in California and Florida.
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DaimlerChrysler AG (DCXGn.DE) on  Thursday said U.S. vehicle sales fell 8 percent in February.
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BERLIN - 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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Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's top auto  maker, posted a 37 percent fall in quarterly profit on Monday,  pressured by weaker domestic sales, a strong won currency and  high raw material costs.
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Lufthansa AG made a net profit of 164 million euros (&#36;211 million) in the first nine months of 2004, reversing a loss of 409 million euros the year before on growth in the number of international passengers, the company said Wednesday.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 25  â The Dow Chemical Company said Thursday its profit fell 21.3 percent in the third quarter because of changes in German tax laws, higher domestic tax rates and charges for research and development.
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Volkswagen, the biggest European automaker, sold a record 4.61 million vehicles worldwide in the first nine months of 2007, an annualised increase of 8.2 percent, it said Thursday.
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Dow Chemical Co  on Thursday reported lower-than-expected third-quarter profit, hurt by weak North American housing and auto markets and a change to German tax law.
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Automaker DaimlerChrysler AG said Wednesday that its second-quarter profit fell 14 percent, even as the Chrysler division and financial services business that it has sold to a private equity group posted better results.
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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.