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Volkswagen announces new factory in Kenya

12/09/2016
Volkswagen announces new factory in Kenya

Automotive group Volkswagen has announced that it will start car production in Kenya before the end of 2016. It will open a factory in Thika, near Nairobi, and use it to produce a model called the Polo Vivo, building up to a volume of 5,000 units per year. This will be Volkswagen’s third factory in Africa; it has a facility in South Africa (which ...

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