{"id":577793,"date":"2010-05-25T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/archives\/41483"},"modified":"2010-05-25T11:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:12:25","slug":"official-vw-takes-takes-majority-shareholding-in-italdesign-giugiaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577793","title":{"rendered":"Official: Vw takes takes majority shareholding in Italdesign Giugiaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/focusgear.com\/files\/2010\/05\/5468f1732cb2ff68858fd657a04981d1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" class=\"rss2wordpress_image alignleft\" alt=\"Vw Giugiaro Partnership\" \/>As we said in this <b>post<\/b>, Volkswagen announced today the takeover of Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A. (IDG), more exactly, the German manufacturer will take a 90.1 percent stake including the brand name rights and patents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The stake will be acquired by Audi\u2019s Italian subsidiary Lamborghini Holding S.p.A, while the remaining shares will remain in possession of the present owner family Giugiaro. For those who don\u2019t know, Volkswagen had a successful cooperation with IDG for many decades and the partnership created important vehicles such as the first Volkswagen Passat, Scirocco or the Audi 80. Italdesign Giugiaro was founded in Turin by <span id=\"more-41483\"><\/span> Giorgetto Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani in 1968. Currently, the company generates sales of over \u20ac100 million and has a workforce of some 800 employees. &#8220;With this shareholding in Italdesign, we are participating in one of the most renowned design and development companies with one of the richest traditions in the automobile industry. Italdesign is the flagship for creative Italian automobile design and has been instrumental in shaping the face of the automobile industry worldwide. As the creator of the Golf I, Giorgetto Giugiaro laid a new foundation for Volkswagen design in the 1970s,&#8221; said Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p class=\"rss2wordpress_signature\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4wheelsnews.com\/\">Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we said in this post, Volkswagen announced today the takeover of Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A. (IDG), more exactly, the German manufacturer will take a 90.1 percent stake including the brand name rights and patents. The stake will be acquired by Audi\u2019s Italian subsidiary Lamborghini Holding S.p.A, while the remaining shares will remain in possession of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}