To cope with demand, Volkswagen AG will add work shifts at its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, in the first quarter. Volkswagen plans to increase sales by 11% to 7 million vehicles this year. At a works council event, David McAllister, prime minister of the German state of Lower Saxony, said that the carmaker will raise production from January through March at the plant, which produces the Golf compact, Tiguan SUV and Touran minivan.
To meet the increasing sales of the Golf, four shifts will be added in January alone. McAllister, a member of VW's supervisory board, said, “Volkswagen is booming.”
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