VW wins key spatial planning case in Poznań

"If the regional administrative court positively concludes the issue of the remaining area close to the factory, the issue will be definitively closed. We will only have to concentrate on planning further investments," said Joern Reimers, president of Volkswagen Poznań. The issue of "the remaining land" is key for further development of the plant, which produced 156,000 delivery vans in 2005. "We are working a three shifts system. We will assemble roughly 160,000 vehicles in 2006. We have reached maximum production capacity, that is why the decision of the court is so important to us. I believe that positive experience with Poznań would encourage us to establish another delivery truck factory here," said Reimers. Last year, the company had record high results, and according to Puls Biznesu calculations, the company's turnover reached zł.8 billion. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 9) M.M.