Morning Reads: Weekend Edition 10, 11 May 2008 | Thread profile

Saturday’s Birthdays / Calendar Sunday’s Birthdays / Calendar topspeed.com BMW offers military motorcycle purchase program motorcycledaily.com Chains v Belts, who wins the ...

BMW Website Review: HUSQVARNA WORLDWIDE PREVIEW MY 2009 08-05-2008 In occasion of the Barcelona Motorcycle Show Husqvarna presented the brand new TC 450 and TE 310 2009 Yesterday, in occasione of the Barcelona show, Husqvarna presented as worldwide preview TC 450 and TE 310 MY 2009. Husqvarna MY 2009 models make their debut as a worldwide preview at the ...

BMW invests in Sydney for future growth. 05/06/2008 BMW's projected sales growth over the next five years has led the company to invest in a substantial new Sydney-based parts distribution centre. By 2011, BMW is targeting sales of 20,000 vehicles in Australia. The new 12,600sqm facility, located in Sydney's south west near the M5 motorway, will increase the speed at which ...

PressClub: BMW AG Corporate News Results of the 88th Annual General Meeting of BMW AG 05/08/2008 Munich. A total of 452,885,313 shares (75.23%) of the share capital carrying voting rights was represented at the 88th Annual General Meeting of BMW AG held on 8 May 2008 in Munich (total number of shares of common stock: 601,995,196). The results of the voting on items 2 to ...

Statement by Dr. Norbert Reithofer Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG 88th Annual General Meeting of BMW AG Munich, 8 May 2008, 10:00 a.m. Dear Shareholders and Shareholders’ Representatives, Dear Associates, Dear Guests of Honor, Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the 88th Annual General Meeting of BMW AG—also on behalf of my colleagues on the Board of ...

Up to 2012—this is less than one model cycle in our line of business. Besides: I do not consider it a major entrepreneurial achievement to do short-term profit maximization and to push the share price up based only on pure speculation. We intend to meet our profitability goals by implementing operational improvements. We intend to tap € 6 billion of efficiency potential compared to current ...

In 2007, we recorded sales increases in all major markets. We keep growing because people in all corners of the world feel a desire to own our products. These products are the foundation of our success as a company. We will continue to surprise and fascinate our customers with new products and concepts. Within the framework of our strategy, we have confirmed or decided about several new ...

Quote: According to Wegele, Goodyear has broken a new chain at 8,000lbs/strand compared with their Flexten material at 9,000 lbs/strand. And the company is researching carbon fiber tensile members that require 11,000 lbs/strand to reach the failure mode. There is, according to Wegele, no reason that belt-drive cannot be used on modern sportbikes of any displacement....