BWI: Audi Appoints New Dealership in Kolkata

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Audi
Thursday, August 13, 2009 05:06 PM IST (11:36 AM GMT)
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Audi Appoints New Dealership in Kolkata


Mumbai and Kolkata, Maharashtra, India, Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- -- New showroom to be opened on AJC Bose Road
-- Audi dealer network expands to 12 dealers

Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, today announced the appointment of new dealership at Kolkata. Audi's dealership network now expands to 12 locations across India.

"Audi has received an overwhelming response in India. Our sales growth in first six months of this year has been over 75 percent. The announcement of the dealership is the commitment to a great future for the brand in eastern part of India", says Benoit Tiers, Managing Director of Audi India. "We are expanding to twelve exclusive and luxurious Audi dealerships in India. This will give customers the possibility to experience our models, the Audi world and premium service."

Audi Kolkata (Mohan Motors) dealership will be among the largest luxury car showrooms in the city. The showroom will have separate modern Audi workshop to service all Audi models. However, the dealership has already started operating from its sales offices.

The showrooms will be designed to give the customer a complete Audi experience - the whole Audi model range with different equipments and the "Audi world" with the international standards of Audi Corporate Identity.

The interior is being designed with unique and exquisite materials from different countries: furniture from Germany, lights from Japan, the floor from Austria and tiles from Italy.

In addition to Kolkata, the entire Audi model range comprising the Audi Q5, the new Audi A6, the Audi A8, the Audi Q7, the Audi A4, the Audi TT and the super sports car Audi R8 is available at 11 other dealerships across the country: in Delhi, Gurgaon, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kochi.

AUDI AG

AUDI AG develops and produces luxury cars and sold worldwide a total of 1,003,000 cars in 2008 and thus achieved its thirteenth consecutive record year. Audi produces vehicles in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm (Germany), Györ (Hungary), Changchun (China) and Brussels (Belgium). Aurangabad in India saw the start of local production of the Audi A6 at the end of 2007 and of the Audi A4 in early October 2008. The company is active in more than 100 markets worldwide. AUDI AG's wholly owned subsidiaries include Automobili Lamborghini Holding S.p.A. in Sant'Agata Bolognese (Italy) and Quattro GmbH in Neckarsulm.
Audi currently employs around 57,000 people worldwide, including 45,000 in Germany.

The brand with the four rings invests more than ?2 billion each year in order to sustain the company's technological lead embodied in its "Vorsprung durch Technik" slogan.

Audi plans to significantly increase the number of models in its portfolio by 2015 to 40. The Audi brand celebrates its 100th birthday in 2009. The company was founded by August Horch in Zwickau on July 16, 1909; he named it Audi after the Latin translation of his surname ("hark!").

Authorized Dealer Showrooms:

Audi Ahmedabad - Rudra-Path, S.G. Road, Ahmedabad
Audi Bangalore - Survey No. 6/1, Beratana Agrahara, 15th KM, Hosur Main Road
Audi Chandigarh - Plot No. 171, Industrial Area, Phase I
Audi Delhi - B -1/H 1, Mohan Co-operative Industrial Estate, Mathura Road
Audi Gurgaon - Orchid Centre, Sector - 54, Golf Course Road
Audi Hyderabad - 8-2-684/A, Road No.12, Banjara Hills
Audi Kochi - NH. 47, Vytilla Aroor, Bye Pass Road, Marudu P.O.
Audi Mumbai - 81, Dr. Annie Besant Road
Audi Pune - Pro1 Business Centre, Plot No. 395 + 396, Senapati Bapat Road, Shivajinagar

Authorized Dealer Sales Office:

Audi Chennai
Audi Ludhiana
Audi Kolkata


CONTACT DETAILS
Gaurav Sinha, Audi India Press Communications, +91 (124) 4711813, gaurav.sinha@audi.in
Abhishek Mahapatra, +91 (11) 46003200, +91 9811667727, Comma Consulting, amahapatra@comma.in
Sandeep Fernandes, Comma Consulting, +91 (22) 40562503, +91 9819266551, sfernandes@comma.in

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