Volkswagen Gets EU Antitrust Clearance for MAN Takeover
27 Sep 2011, 14:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The takeover of MAN SE by Volkswagen AG has been given the green light as the automaker obtained EU antitrust approval today without having to asset sales or other remedies because the “merged...
Volkswagen Secures 55.9% Majority in MAN
8 Jul 2011, 14:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has ambitions to become the biggest carmaker in the world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t do a little extra business in the track industry as well. VW already holds almost a t...
Volkswagen Officially Goes for MAN
31 May 2011, 16:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the works at the Volkswagen headquarters for a while now, an official bid to take over MAN in a move that will in the end see the company being merged with Scania. Hopes are that by creating a gi...
MAN Latin America Supply Award Announced
29 Nov 2010, 23:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's the end of another year (although there is still a month left, everybody seems to be in quite a hurry to put an end to 2010), so, as we are already used to, all sorts of tops, charts and a...
MAN Buys VW Brazil's Heavy Truck Division
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / German manufacturer Volkswagen has just announced that it will sells its truck business in Brazil to MAN AG, with the transaction due to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. MAN will pay no le...
Scania and MAN Considering Merger
19 Nov 2010, 15:37 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The two companies have acknowledged that they are indeed in merger talks. Der Speigel reported that Volkswagen, which has a controlling stake in Scania and minority holding in MAN, wants to use the ...
MAN Blends Truck and Bus Businesses
20 Jul 2010, 12:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In an attempt to become more effective, truck manufacturer MAN announced this week it will merge its truck an bus businesses in Mexico into one unit. Both sides of MAN's activities will fall un...
MAN Inaugurates Engine Test Center in Nuremberg
22 Apr 2010, 07:25 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The German truck producer MAN has just inaugurated its engine test center in Nuremberg. The facility was built through a $46.8 million investment and allows the company to develop the next generatio...
VW Commercial Unit Still Struggling
19 Jan 2010, 08:45 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / VW Group’s light commercial vehicles (LCV) state that the automotive market’s recovery is not as close as some might think. The company warns that the market has not yet overcome last ye...
Volkswagen to Merge MAN and Scania?
30 Nov 2009, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The expansionist endeavors of German carmaker Volkswagen seem to have reached a whole new level, as rumors began surfacing the carmaker is considering increasing its stake in MAN to above 50 percent...