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Hindustan Times
03-06-2025
- Automotive
- Hindustan Times
Volkswagen says 20,000 workers agreed to voluntarily leave company by 2030
Volkswagen AG said about 20,000 employees will voluntarily leave the company by the end of the decade as the carmaker restructures its German operations to cope with uneven demand for its vehicles. Gunnar Kilian, Volkswagen's head of human relations and board member, told employees Tuesday at a workers assembly in Wolfsburg that the company's restructuring plans are on track. 'With measurable progress on factory costs in Wolfsburg and socially responsible job cuts at Volkswagen AG's six German sites alone, we are accelerating our transformation,' Kilian said. 'Around 20,000 departures from the company by 2030 have already been contractually agreed.' The total represents more than half of the 35,000 headcount reduction target, which the company aims to do without compulsory layoffs.
Business Times
03-06-2025
- Automotive
- Business Times
Volkswagen says 20,000 workers agree to early exits
[BERLIN] Volkswagen said about 20,000 employees will voluntarily leave the company by the end of the decade as the carmaker restructures its German operations to cope with uneven demand for its vehicles. Gunnar Kilian, Volkswagen's head of human relations and board member, told employees on Tuesday (Jun 3) at a workers assembly in Wolfsburg that the company's restructuring plans are on track. 'With measurable progress on factory costs in Wolfsburg and socially responsible job cuts at Volkswagen's six German sites alone, we are accelerating our transformation,' Kilian said. 'Around 20,000 departures from the company by 2030 have already been contractually agreed.' The total represents more than half of the 35,000 headcount reduction target, which the company aims to do without compulsory layoffs. BLOOMBERG
The Citizen
15-05-2025
- General
- The Citizen
Watch: Setting the record straight on Boerboel misconceptions
South African Boerboel Breeders' Society chairperson Nico Kilian told Farmer's Weekly at Nampo 2025 that negative public perceptions of the South African Boerboel need to change. These perceptions, he said, are often formed by cases of mistaken identity. 'We do all we can to change the often-negative perceptions about the breed. We regularly deal with cases where a dog that looks like a Boerboel attacks humans, and it is immediately assumed that the dog was a Boerboel. All big brown dogs are not Boerboels,' he said. Pure Boerboels are registered with the SA Studbook, and only registered dogs can be referred to as Boerboels. 'It is one of our objectives to educate the general public on the virtues of the Boerboel and allay the misconceptions about the breed,' he added. Owners of registered dogs are also prohibited from crossbreeding the Boerboel with other breeds. A true Boerboel has an even temperament, which is one of the most important selection criteria for South African Boerboel breeders, said Kilian. He added that the Boerboel is highly intelligent and has a high level of self-confidence. According to Kilian, the breed has gained popularity around the globe over the years and can now be found in Canada, Australia and America. Watch the video: Breaking news at your fingertips… Follow Caxton Network News on Facebook and join our WhatsApp channel. Nuus wat saakmaak. Volg Caxton Netwerk-nuus op Facebook en sluit aan by ons WhatsApp-kanaal. Read original story on At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Economist
24-04-2025
- Automotive
- Economist
For Volkswagen, things go from bad to wurst
Volkswagen's days of producing a 'global icon' may have seemed behind it. But last month Gunnar Kilian, who sits on the management board of Europe's biggest carmaker, gushed on LinkedIn that vw had done just that. Mr Kilian was not raving about a fancy new car model, though. VW's very own currywurst—a German sausage with spicy tomato sauce—has become, he declared, a 'cult' product, with 'international bestseller status'.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
German carmaker Volkswagen's in-house sausage brand sets sales record
The core car business is weakening, but German auto giant Volkswagen (VW) was able to set a sales record in an unexpected product line in 2024: sausages. Volkswagen's line of sausages saw 8,552,000 units sold in 2024 in canteens and supermarkets. That includes VW's packaged currywurst, a much-loved German dish of sausages slathered in curry ketchup. That continues a steady rise in sales for the carmaker's line of mass-produced sausages. Sales in 2024 topped the previous record, only set in 2023, by more than 200,000 units, a VW spokeswoman confirmed to dpa. The sausage sales figures were announced in an internal message to VW workers posted by the company's works council. "With over 8 million Volkswagen Original Currywurst sausages sold, we are celebrating a new sales record," wrote VW's chief human resources officer, Gunnar Kilian, in a post on LinkedIn. This means that the Volkswagen Group, Europe's largest carmaker, sold almost as many sausages as cars. In contrast to booming sausages sales, vehicle sales shrank by 2.3% in 2024 to 9.03 million models across all brands, which also include marques such as Audi, SEAT and Škoda. For the flagship VW brand, the sausages are by far the best-selling product. In 2024, the 8.5 million sausages compared to around 5.2 million cars and vans with the VW logo. The company attributes the record to new variants such as the hot dog sausage launched in 2021, which sold almost 2.18 million units last year. The classic VW currywurst sold 6.317 million units. VW sold about 7 million sausages in 2019 and 6.5 million in both 2020 and 2021. Further VW sausage varieties are to follow, Kilian announced: "Our next Currywurst coup is already in the works!"
