Volkswagen's Chief Executive Herbert Diess has asked the company's owning families to back a contract extension in a bid to break a management deadlock at the world's largest carmaker, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
FILE PHOTO: Volkswagen CEO, Herbert Diess, addresses the media after a supervisory board meeting at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File PhotoFRANKFURT: Volkswagen's Chief Executive Herbert Diess has asked the company's owning families to back a contract extension in a bid to break a management deadlock at the world's largest carmaker, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The appeal for support from the Piech and Porsche families, who control a majority voting stake at the carmaker, comes after Diess was forced to relinquish management responsibility for the VW brand in June to retain his job as group CEO.Volkswagen declined to comment. The owning families declined to comment, the company's works council and the German state of Lower Saxony, which owns a VW stake, declined to comment.
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