BTS Group AB Receives Order from Sandvik Mining &Construction Logistics
Stockholm, Sweden- BTS Group AB (publ), the world's leading consulting and
training company within the segment of business simulations, signs an agreement
with Sandvik Mining & Construction Logistics to develop and deliver a program in
business acumen at an initial order value of SEK 1.4 million.
Sandvik Mining & Construction is one of the world's leading and most complete
suppliers of equipment and all around solutions to the mining and construction
industry. The logistics unit is a central function assigned to manage the market
units' deliveries of spare parts to the customers. The operation is run under
the Sandvik trademark.
The unit's overreaching goal is to support Sandvik Mining & Constructions'
business through a changed and improved logistics flow. The program aims to
increase the understanding for the changes in the global logistics flow, to
strengthen the knowledge of the costs in the logistics chain, and to increase
the awareness around the individual's part in the logistics chain, within the
company and to the customer.
The participants will be working in a realistic, computer simulated solution,
based on BTS leading simulation technology, which has been designed, developed,
and customised to reflect Sandvik Mining & Constructions future logistics flow.
“We are proud that Sandvik Mining and Construction has chosen BTS for this
strategic program” says Katrin Fagerberg, CEO BTS Nordic.
BTS Group works almost exclusively with large, international companies. Some
recent examples of strategic projects on which BTS has worked include:
Coca-Cola, Weyerhaeuser, General Motors, Vodafone, Boeing, Telstra, Adobe,
Hewlett Packard, Cisco, DHL, Honda, Toyota, Gap, Scania and Sony.
For more information please contact;
Thomas Ahlerup
Senior Vice President Corporate Communications
BTS Group AB
Phone +46-8-5870 7002
Mobile +46-768-966 300
E-mail thomas.ahlerup@bts.com
Malin Hermansson
Communication & Change Manager
Sandvik Mining & Construction Logistics Limited
Direct +46 26 26 22 94
Mobil +46 70 250 31 00
E-mail malin.hermansson@sandvik.com
About Sandvik Mining & Construction:
Sandvik Mining and Construction is a world-leading provider of equipment and
solutions for mineral exploration, underground mining in hard and soft
formations, surface mining and bulk materials handling and specific areas of the
construction industry, such as quarrying, tunneling, demolition and recycling
and other civil engineering applications.
Our range of products include rock tools, drilling, excavation, crushing and
screening machinery and bulk materials handling systems. Our service-oriented
global organization is well developed and has more than 3 500 service
technicians strategically located all over the world working for our customers.
Today Sandvik Mining and Construction has approximately 12 200 employees and
operations in 130 countries.
For more information on Sandvik, go to www.sandvik.se or
www.miningandconstruction.sandvik.com
About BTS Group AB
BTS Group AB is the world's largest and most successful consulting and training
company within the segment of business simulations.
BTS supports executive management in corporate change processes and the
implementation of new strategies with the objective of creating a more
successful and profitable company. BTS delivers this through real life,
tailor-made business simulations.
BTS educates and trains not only executive and top managers but also the entire
organization so that they understand and have the ability to analyse the key
factors most important to the company in terms of supporting growth and
profitability.
The projects are managed as tailor-made business simulations delivered as
e-learning solutions or as interactive seminars. In each case, individual
participants and teams are given the opportunity to create their own experiences
and instantly see the result of their efforts by working in a simulated
environment where real-life corporate data and conditions apply.
All of this creates a highly efficient education process where business
strategies and objectives are transformed into action, which in turn leads to a
higher awareness of which day-to-day business decisions affect corporate
profitability and success. The overall result is measurable and sustainable
profit improvements.
BTS customers are leading global corporations. Currently BTS customer list
includes more than 25 of the world's 100 largest companies. During 2006 BTS had
a turnover of SEK 379.1 million (286.1) and a result after tax of SEK 38.6
million (36.8). BTS has today approximately 200 employees in Sweden, Finland,
UK, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium Switzerland, US, Australia, China and South
Africa.
BTS is a publicly traded company on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and trades
under the symbol BTS B
For more information on BTS go to www.bts.com
