I'm really enjoying your discussion on VW and their policies.
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Stan Wilder
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----- Original Message -----
From: "jimt" <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: Executive email addys Was: name change of Volks Cafe...

> VWoA is a division of VW brand which is owned by VW AG.
> Porsche NA is just an office and not a division but is wholly owned and
> managed by Porsche which now owns three seats on VW AG board of directors.
> How is that for an unrelated becoming related?
>
> Now the tricky part.  VW AG from reports in the past when the evil
privateer
> company was doing all the trademark infringement pillaging in VWoA's name,
> was not connected to the directions to protect the brand in NA.
>
> So basically VW AG had directed VWoA to protect the brands within its
> territory but not the techniques or level.  At least the ethics of it are
> better now and there is no where near the amount of it as there was a few
> years back with the privateers doing the work and pocketing huge fees and
> commissions.
>
> As for emailing to an internal email server?  I would bet that filtering
> will auto delete almost all of the emails to the private addresses.  Sales
> and marketing addresses would at least get a complaint mentioned on their
> box being filled up at the staff meetings.
>
> jimt
>
> On 10/17/05 8:15 AM, "Bostig Eng." <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If you'd like to write, I believe these are some useful email addresses,
> > please let the list know if they begin to bounce etc. I validated them
via
> > VW's SMTP server and they seem to exist, so give them a shot!
> >
> > frank.witter@vw.com     -        Frank Witter (CEO/CFO)
> >
> > adrian.hallmark@vw.com  EVP, Sales and Marketing: Adrian Michael
Hallmark
> >
> > I'm looking for more but this is what I have so far.. I also have the
pres,
> > general counsel and members of the board of VW AG in germany, but I
doubt
> > that'll be useful. It appears that VWoA is not a public company in the
US.
> > Does anyone know differently?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
> >