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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 1999 1999 Audi Group further consolidates its strong position
Audi set a new record for worldwide vehicle sales and was able to increase sales revenues again substantially. The company's capital investments remained at a high level.
This year and over the next four years, Audi is to invest a total of more than DM 16 billion in production facilities, infrastructure and, in particular, in the rejuvenation and expansion of its product range. According to Paefgen: "This record investment volume will allow us to tap new profit-making potential in the long term." Audi was particularly successful in the USA where it sold 65,959 vehicles (up 38.8 percent). 257,642 units (up 5.5 percent) were sold in Germany. This gave the company a market share in Germany of 6.8 percent in 1999 (6.5 percent in the previous year). 261,499 Audis were sold in Western Europe (not including Germany) (up 1.8 percent). Vehicle sales in Japan dropped 27.2 percent to 6,429 units, partly as a result of the nation's general economic situation. 43,179 vehicles (up 2.2 percent) were delivered to customers in other markets. This figure includes 6,911 vehicles sold in China (down 8.8 percent). A significant increase in demand is expected this year following the market launch of the Audi A6, which has been modified for the Chinese market and is produced in China. Vehicle sales by Audi's subsidiary Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A developed positively. 265 Diablo models were sold worldwide in 1999, an increase of 24.4 percent. Automobili Lamborghini Holding S.p.A. and its subsidiaries were included in the financial statements of the Audi Group for the first time in 1999. Vehicle production in the Audi Group rose in 1999 by 1.1 percent to 626,059 units, including 252 Lamborghini Diablo models. The model with the highest volume was the Audi A4 which accounted for 248,428 units, followed by the Audi A6 with 161,037, the Audi A3 with 143,333, the Audi TT with 52,579 and the Audi A8 with 14,636 units. The number of engines manufactured by Audi in Györ (Hungary) and Ingolstadt went up by 1.9 percent to 1,265,465 units. Cosworth Technology Limited was also consolidated as a new subsidiary for the first time in 1999. The number of employees - including Lamborghini and Cosworth Technology for the first time - had increased worldwide by the end of the year by 4,186 to 46,558 (up 9.9 percent) in the Audi Group and by 2,193 to 41,140 employees (up 5.6 percent) at Audi AG (German sites). Audi Hungaria Motor Kft. employed 4,312, the Lamborghini Group 380 and Cosworth Technology Limited 711 people. The Audi Group thus had more employees than ever before in the company's history. (Ingolstadt, Feb. 01, 2000) |
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