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        "id": 1060198,
        "msgid": "volkswagen-1447899208",
        "date": "1996-04-11 00:00:00",
        "title": "Volkswagen",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Volkswagen Regarding Volkswagen's (VW) soaring profits, I was surprised to see the news (The Jakarta Post, March 29) illustrated with a picture of a German assembly line. At least VW should have supplied a picture of one of its Brazilian factories. According to Business Week (Feb. 26, 1996) VW's Brazilian subsidiary pulled an estimated US$675 million in net income last year.",
        "content": "<p>Volkswagen<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Volkswagen's (VW) soaring profits, I was surprised<br>\nto see the news (The Jakarta Post, March 29) illustrated with a<br>\npicture of a German assembly line. At least VW should have<br>\nsupplied a picture of one of its Brazilian factories. According<br>\nto Business Week (Feb. 26, 1996) VW's Brazilian subsidiary pulled<br>\nan estimated US$675 million in net income last year.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995 Volkswagen unveiled plans to invest $2.5 billion by<br>\n1999 to double its Brazilian output, to one million vehicles per<br>\nyear, and make Brazil its center for worldwide truck production.<br>\nBad news for Mercedes-Benz, Scania and Volvo.<\/p>\n<p>Such profits have been subsidizing VW overmanned and<br>\ninefficient factory in Wolfsburg. The guys work only four days a<br>\nweek and because the plant is 20 percent owned by the state of<br>\nLower Saxony, it can't make workers redundant. It is regarded as<br>\nEurope's last communist company. Guess which company is Mr.<br>\nPiech's love-baby.<\/p>\n<p>OSVALDO COELHO<\/p>\n<p>Bandung, West Java<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/volkswagen-1447899208",
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