Audi: Successor of Dr. Winterkorn announced, new brand strategy for Volkswagen

Breaking news from Volkswagen and Audi:

In an early statement after his move to become head of Volkswagen Group, Dr. Winterkorn announced current head of Finance Rupert Stadler as his (provisional) successor.

Dr. Winterkorn also announced that the Volkswagen Group will introduce again one common head of development to secure synergies and decrease costs for developments inside the different brands.

The biggest change will affect the so-called brand groups:
There will be a luxury brand group with Audi, Bentley, Bugatti and Lamborghini and a volume brand group with VW, Seat and Skoda.

Please read here the Google-translated article.

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Source: Spiegel online, picture by VW

Audi: Successor of Dr. Winterkorn announced, new brand strategy for Volkswagen

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