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Audi investing €13b in expansion plans
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 05 - 01 - 2013

Audi keeps its foot on the gas pedal by allocating nearly €8 billion to construction of new plants.
Despite challenging economic circumstances, Audi is maintaining its ambitious capital-expenditure program. The Audi Group plans on investing €13 billion through 2016 to continue resolutely maintaining its course for growth as per its Strategy 2020. Expenditures will primarily address the development of new products and technologies as well as the construction of new plants. Nearly €8 billion will be invested in the German sites of Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm.
Audi is maintaining its robust capital-expenditure program to the tune of €13 billion in coming years. “We will keep investing large sums to pursue our growth strategy," said Axel Strotbek, member of the Board of Management for Finance and Organization at AUDI AG.
He added that the Group wants to spend more than €2 billion every year on new products and technologies.
All in all, more than €10.5 billion is to be allocated through 2016 to modernizing and expanding Audi's portfolio of products as well as financing core areas of expertise such as lightweight design/construction and electric mobility. Conventional powertrains are to be rendered even more efficient.
Nearly €8 billion has been earmarked just for the German sites of Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm in the next five years. In addition, expansion of the site in Gy?r, Hungary will be completed in 2013. Audi is building a body-manufacturing shop, a paint shop and a press shop in Gy?r. The Group is expanding capacities in China, as well. Automobiles with the four rings are expected to begin rolling off the assembly line in Foshan, China in early 2014. Moreover, a plant in San José Chiapa, Mexico is scheduled to start producing Audis by 2016.
“The expansion of our global manufacturing infrastructure will help us to continue growing," said CFO Strotbek. Audi wants to sell more than two million vehicles annually by 2020 to become the perennial number one premium brand in the world. To this end, Audi hopes that its innovations will attract customers everywhere to the brand. Last but not least, the company seeks to appropriately balance financial success with social and environmental concerns to further consolidate its unsurpassed image worldwide. — SG


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