PROFILE a.s.

CATEGORIES

Automotive; Car Parts and Accessories, Car Production, Components for Automotive Industry, Gears, Vehicles

Company

Volkswagen Slovakia a.s.

J. Jonáša 1 Phone: +421 2 6964 1111 843 02 E-Mail: [email protected] Slovakia Internet: www.volkswagen.sk

Since 1991 Volkswagen Slovakia (VW SK) has produced billion EUR in monetary figures. Supplies from Germany more than 4 million vehicles and 6.8 million gears in Slo- with 31.3% share and supplies from Hungary with 11.3% vakia. It belongs to the largest employers, exporters and share followed. investors in the country. It employs over 10,800 people. Exports of VW SK reached 7.1 billion EUR in 2015. The In its plant in Bratislava it produces vehicles Volkswagen company exported 99.6% of the cars produced in Slova- Touareg, Q7, !, Volkswagen e-up!, kia. The most significant markets were Germany with SEAT Mii, ŠKODA Citigo, bodies of Cayenne and 36.8%, USA with 13.4% and China with 10% share. gears, in Martin it manufactures components for gears, in Košice it prepares vehicles for export to Russia and in The company was established on 30 May 1991 as Volks- Stupava it produces equipment used for vehicle produc- wagen Bratislava, s. r. o. with 80% share of Volkswagen tion. AG and 20% share of BAZ, a. s. At the beginning the plant employed 112 people who mainly worked manually. The In 2015 the car production in the Bratislava reached first car originating on the Bratislava plant line was Volks- 397,458 vehicles. Sport and commercial vehicles (SUV) wagen Passat in December 1991. Today more than 10,800 constituted 56% and city cars of the type New Small Fa- employees work in VW SK using up-to-date technologies, mily 44% of the production. The Bratislava plant manu- automated technologies and robots to produce vehicles factured 262,400 gears. Production in the Martin plant of 6 brands for the Group. increased by 4.3% and reached the historical record of 36.4 million components. In 2015 we experienced growth in the number of emplo- yees by 9.3% up to 10,800. It concerns the greatest num- ber in history and almost 1,000 new jobs in Slovakia. The turnover of the company increased on the year on year basis by 17% to the record level of 7.2 billion EUR. Profit before tax increased by 9% to 213 million EUR. The company investments in Slovakia increased on the year on year basis by 78% and reached the historically highest level of 414.6 million EUR. They were mainly directed in the construction of new operations. In the last year the volume of component purchases for the production of vehicles, gears and components reached 5.8 billion EUR. Supplies of parts from Slovakia represen- ted the greatest share and amounted to 34.7%, i.e. two

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