Volkswagen Slovakia

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Volkswagen Slovakia, as
legal form Corporation
founding March 12, 1991
(Volkswagen Bratislava, sro)
December 7, 1998
(Volkswagen Slovakia, as)
December 21, 1998
( merger of VW Bratislava and VW Slovakia)
Seat Bratislava , SlovakiaSlovakiaSlovakia 
management Oliver Grünberg ( CEO since 2019)
Number of employees 14,800
Branch Automotive industry
Website sk.volkswagen.sk/de
Status: 2019

Volkswagen Slovakia, as is an automobile manufacturer in Slovakia and a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG .

history

prehistory

At the Bratislava location, the Bratislavské automobilové závody np (BAZ), founded in 1971 , should have produced models of the Škoda brand . Even before that, predecessor companies were responsible for the production of parts for Tatra . As a Tatra department, the company's own development department in Bratislava also tried to design its own Tatra vehicles (e.g. Tatra 603 MB ). In the 1960s, the government developed the desire to increasingly industrialize the Slovak part of the country and to set up its own automobile plant. Series production of the Škoda Garde Coupé only started there on April 30, 1982 . Other models should follow. According to the original agreement from 1980, around 100,000 vehicles were to be produced annually. These goals were missed by a wide margin: the Bratislava plant had managed to produce a fraction of 63 vehicles by August. Low production volumes and quality problems persisted until the end of car production in 1987 with the successor model Škoda Rapid . After the end of car production at the plant, a slightly modernized version of the Praga V3S was produced. Furthermore, the plant and branches spread across the country served as suppliers of chassis components for the Škoda Favorit.

Takeover by Volkswagen

After the Velvet Revolution , privatization of the economy was initiated. The state enterprise Bratislavské automobilové závody š.p. was dissolved in 1990 and a joint stock company Bratislavské automobilové závody as was founded. Looking for a partner, the Slovak government negotiated with 12 manufacturers, of which GM / Opel , Renault , Peugeot and VW made the second round. In the end, Volkswagen - despite six weeks of exclusive negotiations between the government and GM - was able to assert itself on eight out of ten decisive points against General Motors, which had also requested subsidies for the site in the event of a takeover. The government was unable to guarantee these funds due to a lack of liquid funds.

Finally, in 1991 Volkswagen AG (80%) and BAZ (20%) founded the Volkswagen Bratislava, sro joint venture . In 1994 Volkswagen took over the remaining 20 percent from BAZ. In 1998 , Volkswagen Bratislava merged with Volkswagen Slovakia , a joint stock company founded by Volkswagen AG shortly before . Volkswagen Bratislava has thus expired, so that Volkswagen Slovakia became the legal successor.

Series production began in Bratislava on February 14, 1992 with the VW Passat B3 . Production increased from 2,230 vehicles in the first year to 30,147 in 1996. In 1998, 125,281 vehicles were already produced.

By 2005 Volkswagen AG had invested EUR 1.175 billion in this subsidiary.

The five millionth vehicle was produced in 2017. More than 99 percent of the production is exported.

Locations

The company has four locations: Bratislava (automobile production), Martin (manufacture of transmission and chassis components, since 2000), Košice (preparation of vehicles for the Russian market, since 2004) and Stupava (toolmaking, since 2014).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report 2017 (PDF)
  2. ↑ a b Martin Odkladal: Ako sa zo Slovenska stala automobilová veľmoc. In: Aktuell.sk. August 24, 2015, accessed November 19, 2018 (Slovak).
  3. ↑ a b Malgorzata Jakubiak, Peter Kolesar, Ivailo Izvorski, Lucia Kurekova: The Automotive Industry in the Slovak Republic: Recent Development and Impact on Growth . In: Commission on Growth and Development. Working paper . tape 29 , 2008 ( worldbank.org [accessed November 16, 2018]).
  4. ↑ a b Sonia Ferenčíková: East-West joint ventures in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Slovakia . In: William Davidson Institute Working Papers . tape March 27 , 1997 ( handle.net [accessed November 16, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Entry in the commercial register Volkswagen Slovakia, as (IČO 35757442) In: finstat.sk (Slovak)
  6. ↑ Proof of this number: From the Beetle to the global corporation . In: Manfred Grieger, Ulrike Gutzmann (Hrsg.): Historische Notate . tape 17 , 2015.
  7. ↑ Jochen Tholen: The influence of German automobile companies on the working relationships of their subsidiaries / holdings in Central / Eastern Europe - using the example of VW in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia . Presentation at the congress "European Automobile Production: Future Potential through Sustainable Technical and Social Innovation", Ruhr University Bochum, May 31st - June 1st, 2005. 2005 ( ruhr-uni-bochum.de [PDF; accessed on November 16, 2018]).
  8. ↑ a b works. In: sk.volkswagen.sk. Retrieved November 16, 2018 .