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Skoda Xanthi F.C. (), or F.C. Skoda Xanthi Athletic Club, is a Greek football club, based in the city of Xanthi.

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VW Unit Skoda Auto Posts Record Sales In First Four Months

Czech car maker Skoda Auto AS, a unit of Volkswagen AG (VLKAY), said Thursday it sold 9.

8% more vehicles in the first four months of this year than a year earlier, marking a new sales record for the period.It sold 324,100 vehicles, up from the previous record of 295,300 a year earlier.The sales and production result at Skoda Auto, the Czech Republic's largest exporter and a bellwether of the health of domestic manufacturing, also indicates that the country's automotive segment remains well anchored."With the [recent] launch of the Skoda Citigo [subcompact model] we expect a further [driver] for our sales in coming months, and that despite the fundamentally more difficult business environment on some western European markets," said Jurgen Stackmann, the company's board member responsible for sales.Go to http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/ for the new Dow Jones blog on Central and Eastern Europe, covering business, politics, society and more, written by our correspondents across the reg...

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