Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles delivered 445,000 urban delivery vans, Transporters and pick-ups to customers all over the world revenue rose to 9.6 billion euros
Dr Eckhard Scholz, Chairman of the Board of Management for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, said: ‘If you consider the fact that our models did not reach their usual sales performance in our second largest sales market of South America because of the economic crisis there in 2014, the result is excellent.
‘In Western Europe all models, especially the T5 and the Crafter, experienced strong demand’, said Scholz. ‘This boosted the good results, also because of the positive effect of the product mix.’
Additional profit growth was achieved through the implementation of cost-optimisation schemes in all areas of the company. ‘From Development, Purchasing and Production through to Sales, in offices and on assembly lines, all Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles employees persistently and systematically identified potential for improvements which altogether contributed to increasing results,’ continued Scholz.