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Volkswagen
In a rather sudden move,
Volkswagen has announced that, effective immediately, Michael Horn is replacing
Jonathan Browning (shown above) as CEO of VW of America. Horn has been with VW since 1990, taking on various roles that include, most recently, the head of VW Aftersales worldwide.
As for Browning, VW says that his departure is due to personal reasons. Browning replaced
Stefan Jacoby as
VWoA CEO in October 2010, but A
utomotive News hints that VW's "disappointing US sales," may have been a factor in the executive shakeup, as VW was not on trend to reach its aggressive goal of selling 800,000 units in the US annually by 2018.
Scroll down for VW's official announcement (translated from German) as well as some other resulting personnel changes.
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