Scania's expansion of its Russian network pays off

Scania's expansion of its Russian network pays off

The Russian grocery chain X5 Retail Group has ordered 146 Scania distribution
trucks for supplying goods to its nationwide stores and supermarkets.  Last year
Scania delivered 144 trucks to the group. 

“The deal confirms our customers' trust in Scania as a provider of high quality
trucks with low operating costs and a well-developed service network,” says
Raimo Lehtiö, Managing Director of Scania Russia.


X5 Retail Group N.V. is continuing to increase the share of Scania trucks in its
fleet, which was previously dominated by domestic makes. With this order, more
than 50 percent of the company's heavy distribution trucks in Russia will be
Scania trucks.

The company has more than 600 stores and supermarkets of its own in major
Russian cities such as Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, as well as 600
franchised retail units in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

All 146 vehicles, which will begin to be delivered in September, are two-axle
and three-axle distribution trucks equipped with Scania 9-litre engines. The
trucks are furnished with box bodies from a Russian bodybuilder.

Today Scania has nearly 30 service workshops in Russia and plans to continue its
expansion. During 2008, an additional six to eight new service workshops will be
established. Scania Russia will also establish regional warehouses in order to
provide high availability of parts to all its customers in the country.

The rapid growth of the Russian heavy truck market continued last year. Imports
of western European makes increased by 115 percent during 2007. A total of
19,464 new trucks were imported, compared to 9,072 in 2006.

With a market share of 27.4 percent, Scania was the largest western European
make in Russia for the seventh straight year. 


For further information, please contact Hans-Åke Danielsson, Press Manager, 
tel. +46 8 553 856 62.



Scania is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy
transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. A growing
proportion of the company's operations consists of products and services in the
financial and service sectors, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective
transport solutions and maximum uptime. Employing 35,000 people, Scania operates
in about 100 countries. Research and development activities are concentrated in
Sweden, while production takes place in Europe and South America, with
facilities for global interchange of both components and complete vehicles. In
2007, invoiced sales totalled SEK 84.5  billion and the net income amounted to
SEK 8.5 billion. 

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