Audi keeps its foot on the gas pedal: €13 billion in capital expenditures through 2016
Despite challenging economic circumstances, Audi is maintaining its ambitious capital-expenditure program.
The Audi Group plans on investing €13 billion through 2016 to continue resolutely maintaining its course for growth as per its Strategy 2020. Expenditures will primarily address the development of new products and technologies as well as the construction of new plants. Nearly €8 billion will be invested in the German sites of Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm.
Audi is maintaining its robust capital-expenditure program to the tune of €13 billion in coming years. “We will keep investing large sums to pursue our growth strategy,” explains Axel Strotbek, Member of the Board of Management for Finance and Organization at AUDI AG. He added that the Group wants to spend more than €2 billion every year on new products and technologies.
All in all, more than €10.5 billion is to be allocated through 2016 to modernizing and expanding Audi’s portfolio of products as well as financing core areas of expertise such as lightweight design/construction and electric mobility.
Conventional powertrains are to be rendered even more efficient.
Nearly €8 billion has been earmarked just for the German sites of Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm in the next five years. In addition, expansion of the site in GyÅ‘r, Hungary will be completed in 2013. Audi is building a body-manufacturing shop, a paint shop and a press shop in GyÅ‘r.
The Group is expanding capacities in China, as well. Automobiles with the four rings are expected to begin rolling off the assembly line in Foshan, China in early 2014. Moreover, a plant in San José Chiapa, Mexico is scheduled to start producing Audis by 2016.
Source: Audi
