• Volkswagen Group UK celebrates 70-year milestone
    • 18/07/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Volkswagen Group UK is celebrating 70 years of operations in the UK. Now selling more than one in five cars on UK roads, the group marked the anniversary at its Milton Keynes headquarters. Activities included TED-style talks on brand advertising, establishing your ‘why’, and problem solving and [...]
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  • Thompson named new VWG UK corporate boss
    • 03/04/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Kate Thompson has been appointed Volkswagen Group UK's Head of Group Corporate and Public Relations. She will take up her new role on 3 July, replacing Oliver Larkin who will retire from the Group at the end of June. Having spent more than 20 years in public relations roles at Volkswagen Group, most recently as [...]
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  • Ford and VWG expand partnership
    • 15/03/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Ford and the Volkswagen Group are expanding their e-mobility partnership, which includes e-mobility, commercial vehicles and autonomous driving. The news comes after Ford announced it will develop a new model based on the Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB) platform, and double its MEB volume to 1.2 million units over [...]
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  • BCA renews major remarketing contract
    • 15/10/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    BCA has announced that Volkswagen Group UK has renewed its long-standing remarketing contract. The new three-year contract with the option of a further two-year extension will see BCA handled upwards of 40,000 VWG vehicles a year, supporting brands Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, SEAT, Cupra and Volkswagen Commercial [...]
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  • Bowden assumes new role
    • 24/09/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Matthew Bowden will take over as director of Škoda UK from February next year. He will replace Rod McLeod, who becomes director of Volkswagen UK. Bowden returns to Volkswagen Group UK after three years as vice president, sales at FAW-VW in Changchun, China. He said: “I’m excited to be joining Škoda at [...]
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  • Volkswagen Group leads Europcar takeover bid
    • 21/09/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    A consortium led by Volkswagen Group has filed a takeover offer for Europcar Mobility Group. The consortium of Volkswagen Group, Attestor and Pon Holdings, acting as Green Mobility Holding, filed the offer with French authorities yesterday. Volkswagen Group said it plans to, “continue the transformation of [...]
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