This is how we celebrated at Audi Hungaria
Hungary’s most attractive workplace, the world’s largest powertrain factory and Europe’s largest rooftop solar park – to name just a few proud achievements on the occasion of our company’s 30-year anniversary. Four rings, three decades, one big family. Happy Birthday!
Audi’s Hungarian success story began 30 years ago, when AUDI AG established its first foreign production site in Győr. Audi Hungaria has since grown from the originally planned 600-person production facility into the largest powertrain factory in the world, with around 12,000 employees producing nearly 1.7 million powertrains and 170,000 cars each year, as well as providing the entire Audi and Volkswagen Group with a wide range of other services – all with a CO₂-neutral balance sheet. Since its launch, more than 43 million powertrains and nearly two million cars have rolled off Audi Hungaria’s production lines, thanks to factors such as a combined investment of more than 12 billion euros, which has today made it Hungary’s largest company, accounting for 8% of total exports. The company commemorated the achievements of the past three decades in various ways, and with a number of different events. Let’s take a look at all the things that made the anniversary year of 2023 so colourful!
Employee test drives
Audi Hungaria held a prize draw for employees who completed a quiz. The 100 winners were invited to take part in several days of weekend test driving. The lucky colleagues selected by lottery were given the opportunity to test Audi Q3 PHEV, TT Coupé, TT Roadster and e-tron models, or a CUPRA Formentor; and gather new experiences driving the models the Győr facility is involved in producing.
Szilárd Görcsi
IT Security Application Operator
It is always a matter of great prestige to arrive somewhere in an Audi. It was the experience of a lifetime – one I could share with my family – to drive an Audi TT Coupé.
Bridges at Ferenc Liszt International Airport now have an Audi look
For their jubilee year, Porsche Hungaria’s Audi brand and Audi Hungaria enlisted the support of young artists in launching a unique initiative aimed at conveying the companies’ core values. A competition held by the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and Széchenyi István University of Győr resulted in the interiors of the eight passenger bridges at Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport being decorated with works by Szombathely-based artist Bence Kiss for three years.
Bence Kiss
Master’s student in graphic design
at Széchenyi István University
I view Audi’s competition providing space to young, creative designers, along with opportunities to display their work, as an enormously positive thing.
Branding event at Millenáris
Audi Hungaria celebrated its 30th anniversary by presenting its wide range of products and services, as well as its new strategy, in a truly unique and inspiring location. The event held at Millenáris in Budapest featured Gerd Walker, member of the AUDI AG Board of Directors for Production and Logistics and Chairman of the Audi Hungaria Supervisory Board, showcasing the central role of Audi Hungaria in AUDI AG’s international production network. Also attending was Xavier Ros,
member of the Board of Directors for Human Resources at AUDI AG, who spoke highly of the performance of Audi Hungaria’s employees over the past 30 years, while Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó praised the company’s role in the Hungarian economy.
Renáta Rőczei
Consultant,
HR Strategy
I will always remember this first-rate event, which I got to help organise, as a worthy and elegant celebration of the 30th anniversary.
Open Day at the production facility
To mark its 30th anniversary, Audi Hungaria opened its doors to nearly 50,000 visitors eager to witness production processes at one of the world’s most modern automotive factories, which also contains the largest powertrain factory anywhere. There to present the company’s diverse activities and future projects to visitors while hosting more than 200 programmes full of experiences were several hundred Audi colleagues. One interesting statistic: the attendees walked a total of half a million kilometres around the facility that day
Diána Gácsig
Materials Management Inhouse Whole Vehicle Production
On our Open Day, family members got to take a look inside the restricted-access production units. My daughter was very impressed with the ‘dance’ of the painting robots, and tried her own hand at sanding and polishing.
Cooking Day
Audi’s traditional farewell-to-summer Cooking Day took place in a perfect retro atmosphere overseen by the iconic TV personality Gyuri Rózsa, who proved an incredibly popular moderator, making this favourite event of the jubilee year a truly memorable occasion. Taking part in the competition were one hundred
enthusiastic six-member teams. The jury awarded separate prizes in the various food categories, with special prizes also handed out for the best team outfits and most imaginative stand, as well as for the ‘most fun’ team.
Viktor Jankovics
Team Coordinator
Pressing Plant Logistics
Cooking Day always gets everyone in a good mood. People chat and get to know each other. This was the fourth time I have competed successfully with my team.
Saluting our colleagues
For the first time, Audi Hungaria employees marking major anniversaries celebrated together. At a grand gala night held in the Audi Arena, the company thanked colleagues celebrating their 15th, 25th and 30th anniversaries for their contributions to Audi Hungaria’s success. The evening brought together generations worth of experiences and memories. The celebrants were each presented with a commemorative pin made exclusively for the occasion, as well as a T-shirt. In keeping with
the ‘retro’ theme, the crowd of some 500 employees at the event were entertained by the duo of György Korda and Klári Balázs.
Tamás Tóth-Kunos
Coordinator Quality Assurance
Central Functions Vehicle Drives
The gala offered a chance to meet up with colleagues I first started to work with here. It was nice to reminisce with them about what Audi was like 25 years ago.
Celebration of MORE
An anniversary event on 7 November saw the ceremonial launch of mass production of the new generation of electric motors built on the Premium Platform Electric. The guests were also treated to a look at the prototype of the Audi Q6 e-tron, one of the models to run on the new drive, as well as the Lamborghini Revuelto, which was introduced with a special performance by Audi Hungaria’s partner the Ballet Company of Győr. There to speak about the company’s jubilee year and future were Hungarian Minister for National Economy Márton Nagy, Gernot Döllner, Chairman of the AUDI AG Board, Gerd Walker, Member of the AUDI AG Board for Production and Logistics, and Alfons Dintner, Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi Hungaria.
László Csaba Tóth
Brake Test Bench Technician
Powertrain Production
As a 30-year Audi veteran, I too was invited to speak on stage, and afterwards got the opportunity to chat with the company’s top managers.
Two wind ensembles on a single stage
Founded in 1962 by AUDI AG employees and still made up of ambitious amateur musicians, the Audi Bläserphilharmonie orchestra performed a wind concert in Győr for he first time, joined by the Győr Philharmonic. After the Ingolstadt-based ensemble and the Győr Philharmonic, supported since 2015 by Audi Hungaria as its main sponsor, each performed independently, more than one hundred musicians all played together as the climax of the festive event, earning a standing ovation from the audience.
Sebastian Fischer
Organisational Manager
Audi Blaserphilharmonie
For us amateurs, it was incredibly uplifting to stand shoulder to shoulder with professional musicians, demonstrating the power of collaboration in music.
