Local contractor sues over VW bidding process
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 9:52 am
D.F. Chase and an Illinois company have sued various groups involved in the awarding of several construction contracts at Volkswagen’s rising Chattanooga campus.
SEE ALSO: D.F. Chase’s two contract wins in Chattanooga
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VW seeking new ad brains
Posted on August 18, 2009 at 7:14 am
The Pride of Chattanooga says that, even though advertising wunderkinder Crispin Porter has done nice work, it is going to consider other agency options as it ramps up its U.S. growth plan. The account is worth more than $200 million.
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VW expects 100,000 applications
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 11:36 am
The auto maker’s Chattanooga HR chief says his team is building a system to handle 100,000 job applications for the less than 2,000 it expects to begin bringing on early next year.
SEE ALSO: VW of America boss Stefan Jacoby talks to The Detroit News about VW’s plans, including how it will fix a brand that “got a little bit lost.”
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Nashvillians land some more VW work
Posted on July 1, 2009 at 12:45 amThe La Vergne operation of Schneider Electric will handle the electrical work on the heating and cooling building at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant. The firm bid $3.6 million for the job.
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VW supplier bringing 200+ jobs to Chattanooga
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 9:07 amThe U.S. arm of Spain’s Gestamp will invest $90 million in a stamping operation at the Enterprise South Industrial Park. Within three years, the company will employ 230 people at the site near Volkswagen’s plant.
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Add 38% to VW’s plans
Posted on May 15, 2009 at 7:01 amThe apparently opportunistic German auto maker says it has expanded the plans for its Chattanooga factory to 2.4 million square feet, 13 percent larger than their previous version. That will expand the company’s production capacity to 900 vehicles a day, almost 40 percent more than initial projections.
“This is great timing,” Frank Fischer, who will run the plant, said yesterday in an interview at the site as he prepared for the project’s wall-raising ceremony. “Construction prices are down and the availability of resources is immense.”
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Tennessee tops big deals list
Posted on May 11, 2009 at 8:09 amFrom the Free Press:
In a time of smaller business investment nationwide, Tennessee is leading the country in landing the biggest business deals.
Among the top 10 biggest business announcements in North America last year, two were in Tennessee, according to the annual report of such deals by Site Selection magazine.
The $1 billion Volkswagen auto assembly plant in Chattanooga announced in July and the $1.2 billion Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. polysilicon plant, which will make solar-panel components, in Clarksville, Tenn., announced in December were among only $3 billion business deals on the Site Selection list for 2008.
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The first wall
Posted on May 10, 2009 at 10:38 pmVolkswagen’s Chattanooga project hits a milestone:
On Thursday, Mr. Ramsey will join Volkswagen’s top executives, Gov. Phil Bredesen and other officials to watch the first wall of Volkswagen’s $1 billion assembly plant rise from what once was a U.S. Army ammunition plant.
The German automaker is racing ahead with construction of its only U.S. assembly plant despite the worst recession in decades and amid one of the biggest fall-offs in new auto sales. But VW executives and others believe the economy will turn around by the time the plant opens in early 2011, and pent-up demand for new vehicles will accelerate sales.
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VW group to absorb Porsche
Posted on May 6, 2009 at 6:14 pmThe sports car legend, which owns 51 percent of Volkswagen but is saddled with a big debt load, will be merged into the group. The company had looked to take control over the larger VW to secure its supply lines.
“Porsche’s goal of maximizing control over Volkswagen has now been buried,” said Manfred Wilke, an analyst at the Nuertingen, Germany-based Institute for Automobile Industry. “The iconic brand will be embedded in VW’s model-range. Porsche has clearly overstretched its finances.”
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Contractor lands more VW work
Posted on April 28, 2009 at 3:16 pm
A week after securing the job to build an energy plant at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga complex, D.F. Chase also is the low bidder on a section of the company’s training center.
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Journo joins VW
Posted on April 27, 2009 at 10:43 pmApril Wortham, a Nashville-based writer who has been stationed in Nashville for Automotive News, will head up Volkswagen’s community relations in the Chattanooga area.
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D.F. Chase nabs VW deal
Posted on April 21, 2009 at 2:03 pmWith the work to build Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory hitting high gear, D.F. Chase wins a $3.3 million contract to build an energy plant at the complex. The firm was the lowest of 11 bidders.
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It’s probably because folks heard they run with us now
Posted on April 17, 2009 at 8:39 amFrom Fox News:
Volkswagen may have passed Toyota to be the world’s largest automaker in sales last quarter, because of higher demand in its main markets, Reuters reported Friday, citing partial company data.
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Graycor tapped for Volkswagen contract
Posted on April 6, 2009 at 1:35 pmFrom a presser:
Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations, LLC announced today that it has selected Graycor for the construction of the assembly and body shops, technical center and social area. Graycor, which is headquartered in Chicago, will source more than sixty percent of the $63 million award to local contractors. Graycor has also committed to sourcing 11 percent of the contract to minority and woman-owned suppliers.
(FT: R. Neal)
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VW CEO to C-Span
Posted on at 1:31 pmVia e-mail:
Tuesday, April 7 at 9 a.m. ET– Volkswagen of America President & CEO Stefan Jacoby. Look for a discussion that may include: House and Senate climate legislation to lower fuel standards emissions; thoughts on bailouts for U.S. auto companies; the future of vehicles; and VW’s focus on diesel vs. electric.
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