AMAG Automobil- und Motoren

Infobox_Company
company_name = AMAG Automobil- und Motoren AG
company_
company_type = Automobile importer and dealer
company_slogan = ()
foundation = January 3, 1945
location = Switzerland
key_people = Walter Haefner, Founder
industry = automobile
products = automobile
revenue =
homepage = [http://www.amag.ch/ www.amag.ch]

AMAG Automobil- und Motoren AG is a Swiss car importer and dealer for Audi, Volkswagen, Skoda, SEAT and until about mid-2008 Porsche cars founded on January 3, 1945 by Walter Haefner.

tructure

AMAG is a group of Swiss companies owned by Careal Holding AG (Zurich). It includes AMAG Import which imports and buys cars from producers into Switzerland and sells them to local Swiss resellers, AMAG Leasing AG (a company making leasing contracts on some of the cars imported), most of the larger resellers of AMAG imported cars, and others.

AMAG and Volkswagen

All brands of cars imported and sold by AMAG except Porsche, belong to the international Volkswagen group (Audi & Volkswagen in Germany, SEAT in Spain, Skoda in the Czech Republic). Porsche has a close relationship with Volkswagen, strengthened in 2005-2007 by increase of the part of Volkswagen capital owned by Porsche.

AMAG and Porsche

The car producer Porsche AG (Germany) has decided to start its own import company in Switzerland during 2008. Therefore AMAG Import will stop importing the brand Porsche in 2008, but the AMAG companies among Swiss resellers of Porsche will continue to sell this brand.

External links

* [http://www.amag.ch/ AMAG Official Homepage]