Sunday, November 18, 2012

Why Saxons hate Porsche!

Piëch would find the Saxon barrier quite unfathomable

As Stuttgart-based Porsche fires all cylinders to gain majority control over Volkswagen (VW) AG, Chairman Ferdinand Piëch of VW finds himself in a funny situation. Being the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the legendary designer of the Beatle and the founder of sports car major Porsche, he surely has his emotional reasons to try and allow Porsche to take controlling stake of VW, Europe’s largest auto group that owns nine separate brands – including Audi, Bentley and the likes – and made close to $1.5 billion in sales during the first quarter this year.

Porsche already owns a 31% stake in Volkswagen and wants to have a majority stake in VW in order to have access to its liquidity and to secure an uninterrupted supply of parts. Also, as per Christian Breitsprecher of Sal Oppenheim comments to B&E, “Porsche is interested in Volkswagen because it wants to have access to the latter’s scales and volumes.” But isn’t 31% enough to take over control?


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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