Utopia Talk / Politics / Volkswagen record sales!

Daemon Member	Tue Mar 11 07:53:43 While the USA looks fearfully into the abyss of a recession, German companies are reporting record figures http://www...ausage-brand-sets-sales-record German carmaker Volkswagen's in-house sausage brand sets sales record By DPA, 23 hours ago The core car business is weakening, but German auto giant Volkswagen (VW) was able to set a sales record for an unexpected product in 2024: sausages. Volkswagen's line of sausages saw 8,552,000 units sold in 2024 in canteens and supermarkets. That includes VW's packaged currywurst, a much-loved German dish of sausages slathered in curry ketchup. That continues a steady rise in sales for the carmaker's line of mass-produced sausages. Sales in 2024 topped the previous record, only set in 2023, by more than 200,000 units, a VW spokeswoman confirmed to dpa. The sausage sales figures were announced in an internal message to VW workers posted by the company's works council. "With over 8 million Volkswagen Original Currywurst sausages sold, we are celebrating a new sales record," wrote VW's chief human resources officer, Gunnar Kilian, in a post on LinkedIn. This means that the Volkswagen Group, Europe's largest carmaker, sold almost as many sausages as cars. In contrast to booming sausages sales, vehicle sales shrank by 2.3% in 2024 to 9.03 million models across all brands, which also include marques such as Audi, SEAT and Škoda. For the flagship VW brand, the sausages are by far the best-selling product. In 2024, the 8.5 million sausages compared to around 5.2 million cars and vans with the VW logo. The company attributes the record to new variants such as the hot dog sausage launched in 2021, which sold almost 2.18 million units last year. The classic VW currywurst sold 6.317 million units. VW sold about 7 million sausages in 2019 and 6.5 million in both 2020 and 2021. Further VW sausage varieties are to follow, Kilian announced: "Our next Currywurst coup is already in the works!" The VW currywurst was introduced in 1973 and is sold at the canteens in VW's factories. The VW-branded sausages are also available in many supermarkets in the German state of Lower Saxony, where VW is headquartered and has many of its largest plants. The sausage is produced at Volkswagen's in-house butcher's shop of the factory-owned Volkswagen Service Factory, and is even listed in VW product inventory systems under its own part number: 199 398 500 A. VW's currywurst sausages briefly stirred nationwide political debate after the carmaker stopped selling meat at one factory canteen in Wolfsburg in 2021 as part of a social effort to reduce meat consumption. Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who is from Lower Saxony, denounced the move as an attack on traditional German ways of life and called currywurst the "power bar of the skilled factory worker." VW noted that sausages had remained widely available at more than 30 other canteens and snack kiosks at the same sprawling Wolfsburg factory complex, but ultimately brought sausages back to the menu of the canteen in question in 2023.
Rugian Member	Tue Mar 11 09:26:03 Because when deciding which car company to buy from based on their ethical history, one immediately thinks of Volkswagon.
Rugian Member	Tue Mar 11 09:27:00 And also, I didn't know they sold groceries. Learn something new every day I guess.
Sam Adams Member	Tue Mar 11 09:44:30 Ya its amazing that a car company run by germans is known only for its terrible quality and emissions scams. While american companies havent had a good reputation in 30 years and dodge in particular might be worse than VW! even toyota seems to have forgotten how to build truck engines and also seems to have not realized that EVs are a thing. Wtf is going on here. Dei hiring is my guess.
Forwyn Member	Tue Mar 11 10:53:11 VW should probably be investigated for hate crimes for selling pork. Not very inclusive.
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