Møller Gruppen - History

History

The group was founded as Strømmen Auto AS in 1936 by Harald A. Møller with sale of Dodge and DeSoto. In 1946 the company changed name to Harald A. Møller AS and became the importer of Volkswagen in 1948, as well as Audi in 1974. In 1983 the subsidiary Møller US Import AS is founded with responsibility for import of Dodge, and eventually Chrysler and Jeep. In 1985 the group gets its present name after merging with Hamas. SEAT is started imported in 1989 and Škoda in 1991 after they have been bought by VAG. But after Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation were merged to DaimlerChrysler, Møller US Import was sold to Bertel O Steen, who had imported Mercedes-Benz, in 2003. The same year the SEAT import is taken over by the factory, though repairs are retained by Møllergruppen. Also in 2003 the group is divided in two, when the Schage family demerge the real estate investments.


Volkswagen Group
Divisions and
subsidiaries
Passenger cars
  • Audi
    • quattro
  • Bentley Motors
  • Bugatti
  • Lamborghini
  • Porsche
  • SEAT
  • Škoda
  • Volkswagen
Commercial vehicles
  • MAN (55.9%)
  • Scania (71.8%)
  • Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
Motorcycles
  • Ducati
Services
  • Italdesign Giugiaro (90.1%)
Geographic
  • Volkswagen Group of America (Electronics Research Laboratory)
  • Volkswagen do Brasil
  • Volkswagen Group China
  • Volkswagen Group Sales India
Shareholdings
  • FAW-Volkswagen (40%)
  • IAV (50%)
  • Shanghai Volkswagen (50%)
  • Suzuki Motor Corporation (19.9%)
Products and
technologies
  • Platforms
  • Vehicles
Engines
  • Diesel: Current/ Discontinued
  • Petrol: Current/ Discontinued
  • North America
Technologies
  • BlueMotion
  • Digifant
  • DSG
  • ETKA
  • FSI
  • Pumpe Düse
  • SDI
  • TDI
  • VAG-COM
Dormant brands
  • Auto Union
  • DKW
  • Horch
  • NSU
  • Wanderer
Places
  • Autostadt
  • Ehra-Lessien
  • Factories
People
  • Ferdinand Porsche (Founder)
  • Carl Hahn (Chairman Emeritus)
  • Ivan Hirst (Former Managing Director)
  • Rudolf Leiding (Former CEO)
  • Kurt Lotz (Former CEO)
  • Heinrich Nordhoff (Former Managing Director)
  • Ferdinand Piëch (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
  • Bernd Pischetsrieder (Former CEO)
  • Toni Schmücker (Former CEO)
  • Martin Winterkorn (Current Chairman of the Board of Management)
  • Annual revenue €159.3 billion (2011)
  • Employees 501,956 (2011)
  • Stock symbol FWB: VOW3
  • Website volkswagenag.com
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