In the News — 2008
21 November 2008
Volkswagen Site Visit
07 November 2008
VW Expo Planned for Later in November (WRCB TV3)
In the Drive for Volkswagen, the company says it plans to host a Career and Supplier Expo later in November. The career fair will focus on professional and administrative positions...
07 November 2008
Chattanooga: VW seeks suppliers, professionals at expo (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Volkswagen will take the next step to build its Chattanooga work force on Nov. 20 when it seeks to fill professional and administrative slots for its planned $1 billion assembly plant...
22 October 2008
Local Dignitaries: VW Brings Opportunities (WRCB TV3)
Channel 3 Eyewitness News anchor Greg Glover and photographer Louis Lee say the latest news out of Germany is that Volkswagen could start building the Chattanooga assembly plant...
22 October 2008
Drive For Volkswagen: What Are Those Car Towers? (WRCB TV3)
Eyewitness News is giving you a look at the goings on at Autostadt. There are museums, playgounds, things for kids to do and plenty of exhibits for adults...
22 October 2008
Eyewitness News Takes You Inside the VW Germany Plant (WRCB TV3)
Construction at the Volkswagen site in Chattanooga could begin in two weeks. Frank Fischer, who's in charge of the VW project, tells Eyewitness News anchor Greg Glover that VW officials...
22 October 2008
NewsChannel9 In Germany: Local Political Leaders Meet With VW (News Channel9)
NewsChannel9's John Pless checked in this morning from Germany, and says local political leaders met with Volkswagen heads today...
22 October 2008
VW Plant Construction Contracts Near Completion (News Channel9)
The new CEO of Chattanooga's Volkswagen assembly plant said the contracts with local construction companies to build a nearly two-million dollar auto assembly plant at Enterprise South...
21 October 2008
Volkwagen's Partnership With Chattanooga (News Channel9)
On the eve of Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen's arrival for a trade mission to Germany Volkswagen officials give us a first hand look at the latest technologies...
20 October 2008
Historic Trade Mission in Germany (News Channel9)
41 representatives of government and communities from across Tennessee will participate in the trade mission to Germany, including Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen...
20 October 2008
Day 2 - Our Coverage From Germany (News Channel9)
Under clear, sunny skies and with a brisk, cool October wind blowing we find the city of Wolfsburg alive with people walking the downtown streets...
19 October 2008
Chattanooga is Major Part of VW's Global Goal (WRCB TV3)
Volkswagen's road to becoming the world's No. 1 automaker runs right through Chattanooga, where the cars built at its $1 billion assembly plant are expected to drive up demand...
19 October 2008
NewsChannel 9 In Germany (News Channel9)
NewsChannel 9 photographer Brent McDonald and myself are in Wolfsburg, Germany to bring you the Volkwagen story from where the auto maker is making worlwide headlines...
15 October 2008
Read the Travel Blogs from Germany (WRCB TV3)
15 October 2008
Energy is focus of high-powered summit (knoxvillebiz.com)
Volkswagen may be in business to make money, but "guts" and "heart" helped the company make its decision to locate in East Tennessee, according to Stefan Jacoby...
15 October 2008
Chattanooga: VW plant will make clean diesel vehicle (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
The head of Volkswagen Group of America said Tuesday the automaker plans to include a clean diesel version of the mid-size car it will produce at its Chattanooga assembly plant...
15 October 2008
Tennessee: Region's unified efforts key to Germany mission (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
There's a long history of cooperation among Southeast Tennessee counties when it comes to recruitment and support of industry...
15 October 2008
Tennessee: Widespread push (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Southeast Tennessee officials and business leaders will head for Germany next week with briefcases full of information to woo Volkswagen suppliers and jobs to the region...
06 August 2008
Tennessee offices will help Volkswagen build plant (The Tennessean)
Two companies whose Tennessee operations are based in Brentwood have been selected by Volkswagen to help it design and build its new Chattanooga auto assembly plant...
03 Aug 2008
Herndon: VW committed to expanding U.S. market share (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
At Volkswagen's new headquarters just outside Washington, D.C., a classic 1958 Beetle in the sixth-floor lobby reminds executives that the German automaker has an icon...
01 Aug 2008
VW plant could push up local wages (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
As a supplier of robotics equipment for the automotive industry, Tennessee Rand Co. could pick up valuable business from suppliers to the planned Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga...
01 Aug 2008
Chattanooga: Volkswagen hopes to Rev up U.S. sales (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Volkswagen AG with its planned Chattanooga assembly plant is taking full aim at Toyota Motor Corp. "We have Toyota globally in our sights," Volkswagen spokesman Tom Wegehaupt...
30 July 2008
In Volkswagen, 'Dynamo of Dixie' Hitches Ride (Wall Street Journal online)
When Volkswagen AG picked Chattanooga, Tenn., as the site for its $1 billion car plant, the announcement this month led to cheers, pizza topped with sauerkraut...
27 July 2008
CEO Profile: VW exec brings plans to U.S.; see video Q&A (USA TODAY)
Stefan Jacoby's suits appeared to be shrinking after he moved to this country from Germany in the fall. He blamed the dry cleaners. But after his wife arrived here in March...
20 July 2008
Tennessee justifiably revved about manufacturing plant (The Tennessean • Op-Ed)
From Chattanooga to Nashville, from counties throughout the state to offices in Washington, there was a sustained glow last week about Tennessee landing a $1 billion investment...
20 July 2008
VW is committed to Tennessee, U.S. (The Tennessean • Op-Ed by Stefan Jacoby)
Volkswagen Group of America is proud to have Tennessee as a partner in our strategy to expand our U.S. business. Our decision to build a $1 billion state-of-the-art automobile production...
20 July 2008
Company pairs well with Chattanooga (The Tennessean • Op-Ed by Gov. Phil Bredesen)
Last Tuesday, I had the privilege of joining Volkswagen of America President and CEO Stefan Jacoby when he announced the company would build its first U.S. assembly plant...
20 July 2008
Plant culminates vision for Chattanooga's revitalization
(The Tennessean • Op-Ed by U.S. Sen. Bob Corker)
I will never forget the moment I got the call that forever changed Chattanooga and the region: Volkswagen will build its U.S. automotive production facility...
18 July 2008
Volkswagen to begin hiring for new Tenn. plant (Forbes.com)
Volkswagen AG is ready to start hiring for its new Chattanooga assembly plant, starting with about 50 jobs related to purchasing and the start of construction...
16 July 2008
VW Revives Production in U.S. (The Wall Street Journal)
Volkswagen AG said it will build a new car plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., as Europe's biggest car maker returns production to the U.S. after two decades…
16 July 2008
VW Picks Tennessee as Site for a Car Plant (The New York Times/Associated Press)
Volkswagen, the German automaker, picked Chattanooga over rival sites in two other states for a new assembly plant expected to create about 2,000 jobs…
16 July 2008
Fahrvergnügen, y'all. VW picks Chattanooga (Tennessean)
Volkswagen announced Tuesday that it will build a $1 billion U.S. assembly plant in Chattanooga, ending an eight-month search for a site that finally came down to a competition between...
16 July 2008
VW Chooses Chattanooga (Chattanooga ABC affiliate WTVC)
VIDEO — News channel 9 team coverage welcomes Volkswagen to Chattanooga, Tenn…
16 July 2008
It's Chattanooga! (Chattanooga Times Free Press special edition)
A special edition newspaper wrapper is printed at the Chattanooga Times Free Press today after VW announced that it will build its new United States assembly plant in Chattanooga...
15 July 2008
Volkswagen Chooses Chattanooga's Enterprise South Industrial Park
(Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce)
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. announced today that it will build a U.S. automotive production facility in Chattanooga, where it will produce a car designed specifically for...
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15 July 2008
Chattanooga Gets Volkswagen Plant
15 July 2008
Volkswagen Builds Factory in Tennessee, USA
Volkswagen is setting out to build a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where vehicle production will be due to commence in early 2011. The supervisory board of Volkswagen AG today...
15 July 2008
Volkswagen Group of America Announces It Will Produce Cars in Chattanooga; Decision Marks Company's Ongoing Commitment to North American Market
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. announced today that it will build a U.S. automotive production facility in Chattanooga, Tenn...
24 June 2008
Volkswagen Engineers Reduce Crash Impacts, Work Toward Automated Driving (WardsAuto.com)
Volkswagen AG will pursue a number of advanced technologies focused on improving vehicle safety and efficiency, including a brake-assist system to soften crash impacts and...
16 June 2008
Interview with Stefan Jacoby (Washington Post)
I have been lucky in that I have worked for some of the most brilliant people in this industry — excellent engineers, smart businesspeople and true leaders...
18 May 2008
VW's Move to Herndon Revs Economy (Washington Post)
If you want to see a classic economic stimulus package, forget the U.S. government's check-writing campaign or suggestions from some presidential candidates of a cut in the federal gas tax...
18 May 2008
Diesel Automobiles Clean Up for an Encore (New York Times)
After years in the automotive wilderness, largely exiled to the smoky borders of truck stops, diesel is coming home. Americans may not recognize its freshly scrubbed face...
14 March 2008
Hiring in Full Swing for VW (Herndon Observer Online)
A sign reading "Willkommen to the Career Fair" greeted about 1,500 people at Volkswagen Group of America's career fair at the Westin Tyson's Corner on March 6. The event...
14 March 2008
On familiar ground (fDimagazine.com)
Volkswagen Group is moving its US headquarters to northern Virginia, an area which boasts one of the highest concentrations of Audi or VW owners in the country...
06 March 2008
CNBC Interview with Stefan Jacoby (CNBC video)
The CEO of Volkswagen North America tries to turn around a five-year sales slump in the U.S., with CNBC's Phil Lebeau...
04 March 2008
Renewing the fuel debate (FT.com)
The car industry is this week expected to highlight new measures to reduce CO2 emissions and improve fuel economy, as the environment once again dominates the agenda at the Geneva auto salon...
22 February 2008
The New CEO in Town (Washington Business Journal, PDF, 272KB)
Volkswagen AG's U.S. operation has long been the German automaker's contrarian, troubled child. Though the parent company is the world's fourth-largest automaker, and the largest in Europe...
