BMW is temporarily closing some plants in Germany.

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“Leipzig is closed this week and Munich, Dingolfing and Regensburg will close next week,” a UK-based spokeswoman confirmed to just-auto.com on Thursday.


A German newspaper report had earlier quoted a spokesman there as saying about 40,000 employees would be affected as the company reduces this year’s output by 25,000 in response to falling demand.

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