About
Škoda Auto is the Czech Republic's largest manufacturer and exporter, one of the world's oldest car brands — founded in 1895 as Laurin & Klement, making bicycles in Mladá Boleslav, and building automobiles since 1905. Since 2000 the company has been a fully owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, headquartered in Mladá Boleslav, employing about 35,000 people and producing more than 800,000 vehicles per year.\n\nŠkoda's model range — Octavia, Superb, Karoq, and Kodiaq — is built on Volkswagen Group platforms at plants in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, and China, with the Octavia long the best-selling car in Czech history and a staple of European fleet sales. The company is in the middle of its most ambitious transformation: the Enyaq electric SUV and Elroq crossover lead a strategy to launch six fully electric models by 2026, while its Mladá Boleslav plant is being converted into a battery-electric production hub alongside the group's gigafactory plans in Europe.\n\nFor automotive suppliers, Škoda is a demanding Tier-1 customer with deep integration into the Volkswagen supply chain — it procures stampings, plastic components, electronics, and interiors from suppliers across Central Europe, and its dual-brand strategy with Volkswagen platforms offers component suppliers a rare scale opportunity across multiple model lines.
Also known as: Skoda Auto, Skoda
