Czech Republic

Vehicles exhibited:
Light and heavy commercial vehicles

Dates:
3 June - Press day
4 - 8 June - Open to public

Organizer:
Trade Fairs Brno

Co-organizer:
Automotive Industry Association (AIA)

Exhibition Center
Veletrhy Brno, a.s.

Web site: www.autosap.cz

Martin Jahn to become General Director of Volkswagen Group RUS and member of the Skoda Supervisory Board

Wolfsburg, 31 January 2008 - Volkswagen has named Klaus Dierkes (51) as member of the Board of Directors responsible for personnel policy at Skoda Auto, Czech Republic by agreement with the Supervisory Board of Skoda. He succeeds Martin Jahn (38), who has been named General Director of Volkswagen Group RUS, Russia. Jahn will be responsible for the Group sales of Volkswagen AG in Russia. Both changes are to take effect as of April 1, 2008.

Klaus Dierkes has held various positions with the Volkswagen Group since 1984. He has been Head of Human Resources, Volkswagen Germany since February 2006 and General Representative of Volkswagen AG since July 2007.

Dec. 2007 -- ZF is focusing on growth and expects sales in Eastern European to increase by 10 percent. The aim is to gain access to the markets in the East. Any company interested in doing business with Eastern European vehicle manufacturers needs to have a local presence in these countries. All of the major volume manufacturers have developed production capacities in the East, and all ZF competitors have established themselves here. Without a presence in Eastern Europe, ZF could runs the risk of being driven out of the market in Western Europe by low-cost suppliers from Eastern Europe. The same applies to Japanese and Korean vehicle manufacturers who have been joined in Eastern Europe by their Asian suppliers. ZF wants to get in on the action as a partner for Asian manufacturers.

Nový Jičín, Czech Republic, (22 November 2007) – Visteon-Autopal s.r.o., a fully owned subsidiary of Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC), has been named ‘Investor of the Year 2006’ by the Czech Department of Trade and Industry, Association of Foreign Investment (AFI) and development agency CzechInvest. The prize was awarded in the category of “Investments with the Greatest Innovation Potential” and recognizes Visteon-Autopal’s expanding portfolio of innovative development and engineering capabilities at its lighting and climate technical centres in Nový Jičín.

20 young people receive “Best Apprentice Award 2007”
Wolfsburg / Mlada Boleslav, 12 October 2007 - The Volkswagen Group conferred the “Best Apprentice Award 2007” on its best apprentices from all over the world in Mlada Boleslav (Czech Republic). This year, 20 young people from ten countries and three continents received the award. In 2006, the Group trained over 9,000 men and women worldwide.