Breakthrough for Scania Ukraine: 200 Vehicles Sold in Biggest Fleet Contract to Date.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000 Scania Ukraine, Scania's wholly-owned subsidiary in the Ukraine, has signed a contract to deliver 200 tractor units A tractor unit, traction unit, road tractor or prime mover (Australian English) is a heavy-duty vehicle, usually with a large diesel engine and two or three axles. to Orlan-Trans, the transport subsidiary of Orlan Breweries See for an up to date listing of all the breweries detailed on Wikipedia, sorted into regions. Africa
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The vehicles will be delivered at the rate of 10 per month over a 20-month period. The order also includes a five-year repair and maintenance contract. The deal is worth approximately SEK SEK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Swedish Krona. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 130 million. The order is the biggest secured by Scania in the Ukraine to date. Scania took over its distribution activities in the country in 1998. Since then, its subsidiary, Scania Ukraine, has established a network of seven major service workshops along the country's most important transport routes. "Our strategy of also providing our customers with local service and maintenance facilities has borne fruit," says Berth Carreman, MD of Scania Ukraine. "We are now seeing a significantly higher level of interest on the part of the country's major hauliers and this contract definitely represents a breakthrough in that customer category." Orlan-Trans, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Orlan, the third largest brewery A brewery can be a building or place that produces beer, or a business (brewing company) whose trade is the production and sale of beer. Breweries can take up multiple city blocks, or be a collection of equipment in a homebrewer's kitchen. group in the Ukraine, now has a fleet of 140 trucks, 20 of which are already Scanias. The Orlan-Trans contract was signed in the course of a recent visit by the company's management, accompanied by Scania Ukraine personnel, to Sweden's Elmia truck show. Scania is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. With 25,800 employees and production facilities in Europe and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Scania is one of the most profitable companies in its sector. In 1999, turnover totalled SEK 47,100 million and the result after net interest income/expense was SEK 4,500 million. Scania products are marketed in about 100 countries worldwide and some 95 percent of Scania's vehicles are sold outside Sweden. Scania press releases are available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , www.scania.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. : http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/09/07/20000907BIT00700/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/09/07/20000907BIT00700/bit0002.pdf |
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