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    Pischetsrieder to chair Continental supervisory board?
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    Emerging reports from the German press suggest that Bernd Pischetsrieder is being considered as a top candidate to lead automotive supplier Continental. The veteran automotive industrialist was chairman of BMW for most of the 1990s and then of the Volkswagen group until three years ago, but ...

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    Former BMW, VW boss Pischetsrieder reportedly touted as possible Opel chief
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    If Opel makes it out of the General Motors era alive, its dealers want a bigger say in its recovery as an independent automaker. And by a bigger say, they mean taking a 20% stake in the company – and along with it, a new CEO. One of the candidates being touted as a potential new chief ...

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    Will the prodigal Bernhard return to Chrysler?
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    It's no secret that Wolfgang Bernhard, the VW brand's head honcho, is not happy with the fact that current VW Group Chairman Bernd Pischetsrider is resigning at the end of the year. Pischetsrieder was one of the major players involved in bringing Bernhard over from DaimlerChrysler and tasking the ...

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    Big Wig to Big Rig: Pischetsrieder to oversee truck merger
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    The earliest reports on the "resignation" of Volkswagen group CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder indicated that while he'd be replaced as chief executive, he would be retained to take on "special assignments". What such ambiguous duties might entail was a mystery, but it's looking like he may be put in ...

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    Did Porsche, Piech punt VW CEO?
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    The surprise resignation of Volkswagen CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder may have been orchestrated by VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech (grandson of Ferdinand Porsche) and major VW shareholder, Porsche.Analysts have long speculated that Piech was grooming Audi CEO Martin Winterkorn as Pischetsrieder's ...

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    Volkswagen board extends Pischetsrieder's contract
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    Bernd Pischetsrieder can go home and breathe a huge sigh of relief -- his contract was unanimously renewed by Volkswagen AG's board of directors, giving him another crack at the chief executive job at the automaker through 2012. The news comes just before the annual meeting, and not a ...

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    Volkswagen CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder's job is safe -- for now
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    The two-day meeting of Volkswagen's supervisory board ended with the subdued endorsement of CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder (at right) and his ForMotion restructuring plan, with a pronouncement by chairman Ferdinand Piech approving a five-year extension to Pischetsrieder's contract seemingly ...

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    Showdown for Volkswagen's Pischetsrieder, labor unions
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    As Volkswagen's supervisory board heads into a key meeting Wednesday, the future of CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder and his aggressive ForMotion restructuring plan is increasingly in doubt. Half of the supervisory board is made up of labor representatives, who are up in arms about Pischetsrieder's plan to ...

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