VDL Seating Systems, part of VDL Kunststoffen of Heeze, is going to replace around 23,000 stadium seats for PSV. Installation of the new folding seats at the Philips Stadium will be performed by VDL Services of Hapert, while brackets and rail systems for the seats are produced by VDL Lasindustrie in Eindhoven. The installation work will take place in phases. The aim is to have all the new seats installed by the end of the winter break during the 2017-2018 football season. Then PSV will once again have uniform, modern stadium seating in the Philips Stadium. This order is valued at over two million euros.

Dutch public transport company Connexxion has placed an order with VDL Bus & Coach for no fewer than 100 Citeas SLFA Electric. This is the largest order for electric buses in VDL's history and gives Connexxion and its parent company Transdev the largest electric bus fleet in Europe. The order also includes 18 VDL Futuras FDD2. It is the first time that double-deckers will be used for public transport in the Netherlands. All the buses and coaches are destined for the Amstelland-Meerlanden concession in the province of North Holland, a concession characterized by huge passenger demand.

VDL Groep broke all the 2015 records in 2016. The industrial family business with headquarters in Eindhoven saw its turnover, result and number of employees grow to record levels last year. In addition, 2016 was also a special year for VDL Groep. In November, after fifty years of entrepreneurship, Wim van der Leegte passed the chairmanship of the Board of Management to Willem van der Leegte.

VDL Groep continues to strengthen and broaden top management. New vice presidents will join the management team of the Eindhoven-based industrial family company with effect from March 2017. These include current group company directors Jos Bax and Edwin Willems. In addition, vice president Rémi Henkemans will be assigned a new portfolio within the management team. His successor Henk Coppens will also join the deputy directorate. Members of the deputy directorate at VDL Groep serve as sparring partners for company directors and represent the companies during board meetings.

On Monday 6 February 2017, VDL Bus & Coach, part of VDL Groep, will deliver two crowd and riot control vehicles to the Mercedes-Benz dealership in Maasdijk (NL). These are the first buses from an order for 256 crowd and riot control buses that VDL Bus & Coach is converting as a subcontractor. As regards vehicle conversion it is the largest order in VDL history. VDL Bus & Coach has also been awarded the 10-year repair and maintenance contract. The value of the order will not be disclosed.

VDL Automated Vehicles, the collaborative venture between VDL Steelweld of Breda and VDL Containersystemen of Hapert, is a finalist for the Automotive Innovation Award (AIA) 2017. VDL is in the running for the prestigious award, in the Technology category, with its AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicle). The presentation of the biennial award for the best Dutch innovations in the automotive industry will be held on Monday 13 February 2017. Former prime minister and AIA jury chairman Jan Peter Balkenende will present the award at the Louwman Museum in The Hague.

VDL Nedcar will produce the BMW X1 in Born as of August 2017. This is the first time that VDL Nedcar is going to build a BMW. The car factory of the industrial family company VDL Groep, headquartered in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), already produces three MINI models for BMW: the MINI 3-door (since 2014), the MINI Convertible (since 2015) and the MINI Countryman (since 2016). From 1 March 2017 the Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) and sporty MINI John Cooper Works versions of the Countryman will also be built in Born.

VDL Groep is going to break through in the United States. The orders won by the international industrial family business headquartered in Eindhoven in the American automotive industry during 2016 will be carried out in 2017.

The acquisition of the activities of Componenta by VDL Groep has been signed. The agreement to this end was signed today, 21 December, by both the curator and VDL Groep. Componenta is an iron and metal foundry with locations in Weert and Heerlen. The foundries will be renamed VDL Castings Heerlen and VDL Castings Weert. The acquisition will not be finalized until the German competition authority has given its approval, which is expected to happen mid-January. Initially the activities of VDL Castings will be started with about 150 employees. VDL Groep is not revealing the amounts involved in the acquisition.

Industrial family company VDL Groep of Eindhoven further expands the management. From 1 January 2017 three managing directors will join the group's deputy directorate. They are Carel Bouckaert, Jos van Meijl and Guustaaf Savenije. Members of the deputy directorate serve as sparring partners for company directors and represent the companies during board meetings.

VDL Bus & Coach is delivering 166 public transport buses for the Dutch Limburg concession and 62 buses for the Southeast Friesland and the West Frisian Islands concession to passenger transport company Arriva Nederland. The buses have been deployed as part of the regular scheduled service since Sunday, 11 December 2016, the date on which the concessions started up. Of the 228 vehicles, 30 are electric. In Limburg there are 12 brand new VDL Citea LLE-99 Electrics driving in Venlo and 4 VDL Citea SLF-120 Electrics in Maastricht. For the West Frisian Islands Arriva has opted for 14 electric buses: 10 Citeas SLF, 12 metres in length, and 4 articulated VDL Citeas SLFA, 18 metres in length.

The Eindhoven region will have one of Europe’s largest electric bus fleets starting Sunday 11 December 2016. That is the day the new timetable starts and passenger transport company Hermes will put 43 innovative VDL Citeas SLFA Electric in service that emit no harmful substances and produce far less noise than regular buses. Hermes and VDL worked together closely during the deployment project to develop the timetable with electric Citeas. The buses will be topped up periodically so as to have sufficient range to be kept in service all day. VDL also delivered the charging stations and supplies them with power in cooperation with the electricity supplier. This makes VDL not only bus supplier but also system supplier.

On Friday 9 December, VDL Foundation presented five cheques to social initiatives in the vicinity of VDL Nedcar in Born. The gifts amounted to 50,000 euros in total. Beneficiaries were nominated by employees of VDL Nedcar. The cheques were accepted by the handicapped team from T.C. De Snelle Sprong, Stichting Wensulance, Stichting Maasveld, Ronald McDonald Kindervallei and Stichting Vrienden Hospice Bronnerhof.