Agent009 submitted on 1/11/2007 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:04:17 PMWinterkorn, the former head of premium brand Audi who replaced Bernd Pischetsrieder at the helm of the world’s fourth largest carmaker this month, plans to recreate centralised positions on the management board for group-wide development, production and sales that previously were unified in two individual brand group chiefs.
He also is expected to dissolve both brand groups, now broadly arranged around the ‘VW’ and ‘Audi’ marques, and divide them into traditional premium and volume brands. Read More