Why the drastic job cuts are probably just the beginning

So it is right that von Hirschheydt is acting now. But it shouldn’t be the last shocking news for the employees: everything has long been under scrutiny. If the individual parts of Continental are worth more than the whole, the group may be threatened with a split, a sale of business units, a partial IPO or a spin-off. Conti is fully committed to topics such as software, networking and automated driving – but it is slowly becoming clear that it will not be possible to invest in all of these business areas.