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drivers. Personalized insurance protection is offered
by financial services as part of the Porsche insurance
services with the Porsche CarPolicy and the Porsche
CarPolicy S. Both services allow customers to provide
for risks tailored to the value of their vehicle. This
applies equally to third-party liability, fully comprehen-
sive and third-party, fire and theft insurance. Porsche
insurance services has been working successfully for
years with HDI-Gerling Firmen- und Privatversicherung
AG and enjoys the trust of some 20,000 satisfied
Porsche drivers.
The innovative products offered by Volks-
wagen’s financial services along the automotive value
chain met with good response from customers, ena-
bling Volkswagen financial services to make another
positive contribution to the Volkswagen group’s earn-
ings and sales situation. The “Umwelt-Programm”
(Environmental Program) fleet program, which Volks-
wagen Leasing GmbH initiated in cooperation with
Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU – Nature and
Biodiversity Conservation Union), combines intelligent
economic and ecological aspects, allowing fleet
operators to lease the most efficient and lowest-
emission models available. In September 2010, this
innovative program received the “ÖkoGlobe 2010”
international environmental award in the “Environmen-
tally Compatible Fleet” category and, following its
success in Germany, is to be used as a model for
future international projects. In the period from 1 July
to 31 December 2010, the number of new contracts
concluded in the financing, leasing and insurance
business came to 1.4 million after 1.3 million in the
period from 1 July to 31 December 2009. The num-
ber of accounts managed by Volkswagen Bank direct
was 1.4 million at 31 December, 2010. As of the
same date, the joint venture company LeasePlan
Corporation N.V. managed a total of some 1.3 million
vehicles.
New jobs
As of 31 December 2010, the Porsche SE
group had 36 employees (31 July 2010: 37 employees).
As of 31 December 2010, the headcount at
the Porsche Zwischenholding GmbH group of 13,159
employees was up 3.4 percent on the figure seen as
of 31 July 2010. In Germany, the Porsche Zwischen-
holding GmbH group employed 11,267 as of 31
December 2010. This means that Germany accounts
for 86 percent of the total workforce.
The Volkswagen group had 399,381 employ-
ees as of 31 December 2010, 5.9 percent more than
as of 30 June 2010 (377,074). The number of people
employed in Germany came to 181,328, or 45.4
percent of the total workforce.
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