Volkswagen
Truck & Bus GmbH, the holding company that brings together Volkswagen AG’s truck and bus interests, has formed a parity basis supervisory board.
The shareholder
representatives joining Prof. Dr. Winterkorn on the newly-composed Supervisory
Board are Hans Dieter Pötsch, member of the board of management of Volkswagen
AG with responsibility for ‘Finance and Controlling', Dr. Francisco Javier
Garcia Sanz, member of the board of management of Volkswagen AG with
responsibility for ‘Procurement’, Dr. Leif Östling, Daniela Behrens, State
Secretary at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Employment and
Transportation, and Dr. Ferdinand Oliver Porsche.
The employee
representatives on the supervisory board are Bernd Osterloh, chairman of
the Group Works Council of Volkswagen
AG, Gunnar Kilian, secretary-general of the Volkswagen Group Works Council, Athanasios Stimoniaris, chairman of
the Group Works Council of MAN SE,
Günter Pröbster, chairman of the Works Council at the MAN Nurembergplant, Johan Järvklo, representative of the Swedish
Metal Workers’ Union at Scania, and
Lisa Lorentzon, representative of the Federation of Salaried Employees in
Industry and Services at Scania.
“The composition of
the supervisory board represents the next big step in strengthening our
important commercial vehicles business area. The supervisory board and
management will work together to bring our business in medium and heavy duty
trucks with its strong brands of Scania, MAN Truck & Bus and MAN Latin
America closer together and to develop it further successfully,” Winterkorn
underscored.
Andreas Renschler,
member of the board of management of Volkswagen AG with responsibility for
‘Commercial Vehicles’, noted that ”Together with the Supervisory Board we
decided on Braunschweig because the airport there guarantees us direct access
to our brands. That was the decisive factor for all involved.”
Renschler added:
“In a next step the management and the supervisory board will draw up the
overall strategy for our truck brands. Our stated goal is to develop the
alliance between MAN, Scania and MAN Latin America to become a global
champion.”
Bernd Osterloh
said: “The supervisory board of the truck and bus holding is a strong body that
can focus fully on the needs of the medium and heavy duty commercial
vehicle business. The colleagues at MAN and Scania are integrated on an
equal footing and can therefore meaningfully represent the interests of
employees at their plants. By bringing together our commercial vehicle
activities under the roof of Volkswagen Truck & Bus we are taking account
of the significance of our strong truck brands within the Volkswagen Group.”
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