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Overview Audi Production & Sales Audi in the past Audi Electronic Center With a total investment of around 48 million Euro, a seven-storey building is being erected that will concentrate Audi's electronic competence and provide scope for future expansion. From May 2003 on, 750 employees from the development, purchasing and quality assurance departments will work in this building. Audi Concepts Audi Production Cars
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Audi : Production & Sales Figures 1998 Audi : 1998 Record year for the Audi Group
Last year, Audi's vehicle sales reached a total of 599,509 units. This represents an increase worldwide of 9.7 percent. Vehicle sales in Germany totalled 244,127, an increase of 2.3 percent. Market share in Germany was 6.5 (6.8) percent, and 3.4 (3.4) percent in Western Europe. Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen. "We are optimistic that, despite the present risks which the global economy harbours, we again will enjoy success in 1999 and achieve renewed growth."
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Audi achieved particularly high rates of growth in Western Europe excluding Germany (256,803 Audi cars delivered, increase of 15 percent) and in the USA (47,517 Audi cars delivered, increase of 39.1 percent). Sales in Japan fell by 18 percent to 8,828 in the wake of the economic crisis in Asia, though Audi's share of the import market there, which contracted by 22 percent, rose to 3.3 percent (1997; 3.2 percent). In the rest of the world, vehicle sales rose by 7.1 percent to 42,234 Audis. Of this total, 7,578 vehicles were sold in China (up 4.5 percent). Production output of vehicles rose by 11 percent in 1998 to 619,030 units. The A4 remained the highest-volume model in 1998, with a total of 265,414 units manufactured, followed by the A6 on 174,867 and the A3 on 143,974 units. Production capacity for the A8 was once again utilized to the full, with 15,355 of this model built. The TT sportscar, which first appeared on the market at the end of October, reached a production total of 13,682. The number of engines built in Györ and Ingolstadt rose to 1,241,351, an increase of 62.5 percent on 1997. Capital investments in 1998 were over one and a half times higher than in the previous year: measures to update and extend the product range accounted around two-thirds of more than DM 3 billion (1997: DM 1.967 billion) The employees total for the Audi Group rose by 10.3 percent as at the end of the year, to 42,372; the figure for Audi AG (German locations) was up by 7.5 percent to 38,947. Audi can thus report the largest number of employees in the company's history. "Our sustained healthy progress is a credit to the great commitment of the workforce and to the innovative prowess of the company", remarked Chairman of the Board Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen. "We are optimistic that, despite the present risks which the global economy harbours, we again will enjoy success in 1999 and achieve renewed growth."
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