The CEO wants to realign the Mammut Group Volkswagen.
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Düsseldorf, Frankfurt It should be a normal session. The Volkswagen Supervisory Board did not have any critical issues to discuss in Wolfsburg on September 24th, and the 20 supervisors of Europe’s largest automotive group worked their way through the agenda quickly. Then CEO Herbert Diess took the floor as a guest. A few minutes later the air was burning.
Diess spoke about his concern for the future of the company. In competition with the competition, the costs were not right. Diess described how he had seen a site crash before, during his time as BMW manager in the UK. Because the management had not acted and the unions blocked innovations, the location in Birmingham would have disappeared from the automotive map.
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