Škoda Autos’s operating profit up by nearly 57 percent year-on-year

The operating profit of the biggest Czech car-maker Škoda Auto increased by 56.6 percent to 817 million euros last year, the German concern Volkswagen announced in its annual report, published on Thursday. Škoda Auto’s sales last year increased by 13.9 percent to 11.76 billion year-on-year. The Czech car-maker previously announced that its 2014 sales increased by 12.7 percent to 1.037 million units, exceeding the one million level for the first time in history. A total of 281,400 cars were sold at the company’s largest market in China. Sales also went up in Central and Eastern Europe.

Author: Ruth Fraňková