Success in a time of transformation: In the 2018 financial year, Porsche AG achieved new records for operating profit, sales revenue, deliveries, and headcount.

The company’s operating profit grew by around 4% compared with the same period in the previous year, reaching €4.3 billion, and sales revenue increased by 10% to €25.8 billion. The operating return on sales was 16.6%. In 2018, the company delivered 256,255 vehicles to customers, representing a 4% increase on the previous year. The workforce grew around 9%, to 32,325 employees.

»In the 2018 financial year, our product range enabled us to once again significantly increase deliveries. Porsche is synonymous with petrol engines and high-performance plug-in hybrids; in the future it will be just known as well for pure electric drive systems,« comments Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG. Porsche will be investing around €15 billion in new products in the period up to 2023. The sports car manufacturer is systematically expanding its offering in the field of electromobility: The Taycan, the first purely electrically driven sports car from Porsche, will debut in September, with its first derivative, the Cross Turismo, following at the start of the next decade, while the new generation of the Macan compact SUV will also feature electric drive, making it the second purely battery-powered model series from Porsche. In this area, the company’s efforts are based on the projection that by 2025, half of all sales from the Porsche product range will be of electrically driven models, or partially electrically driven plug-in hybrid models.

»Our workforce has more than doubled in just seven years,« Blume points out, »and electromobility is another driver of jobs; we’re creating 1,500 new roles for producing the Taycan alone. Our first purely electric sports car heralds the start of a new era – and we’re very optimistic that the Taycan will be a success. Given that we already have more than 20,000 people seriously interested in buying one, we will be adjusting our production capacities upward.«

Further growth expected for 2019

»The switch to the new WLTP test cycle and gasoline particulate filters, combined with our elimination of new diesel-driven models, mean that the months ahead will also be challenging,« comments CFO Meschke. Despite this, Porsche expects increased deliveries in 2019, as well as a slight rise in sales revenue. »Our products create the foundation for a successful financial year. In particular in 2019, we will have the new generation of the 911 being launched in all markets worldwide; further model derivatives of the 718 and Cayenne; and the launch of the Taycan,« Meschke added. He goes on to say that, despite very high levels of investment in electrification, the digital transformation, and the expansion and renewal of certain sites, the company wants to ensure that it continues to meet its ambitious earnings target. »Through the use of efficiency enhancement measures and the opening up of new profitable areas of business, we want to continue achieving our strategic objective of an operating return on sales of 15%,« Meschke emphasises.

March 16, 2019 Driving photo: Porsche

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