I got it from the Wikipedia article on Porsche AG, but since it's publicly available info and non-controversial, they should be reasonably accurate on it.
I spent some time researching Porsche a couple of months ago when it looked like I was going to buy a used 944. -Adam Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Interesting.. Certainly wasn't my impression! I've not really > followed the history of Porsche and VW very closely. > > What is the source of this information? > > G > > On Aug 8, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > > >>It's actually the other way around. Porsche took an 18.5% ownership >>interest in VW in 2005 to prevent a takeover bid (increased now to >>approximately 25%). Porsche was owned by Ferdinand Porsche and >>later his >>heirs until 1972, when it became a private limited company >>controlled by >>the Porsche and Piech families. VW owns Audi and Skoda, but not >>Porsche. >>VW and Porsche have always been close and VW's chairman and CEO from >>1993 to 2002 was Ferdinand Piech, one of the major Porsche >>shareholders >>and Ferdinand Porsche's grandson. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
