Sustainability − an important aspect of Scania’s business strategy

Launched today, Scania’s 2013 online sustainability report highlights the
importance sustainability has for the company’s long-term business success.
Scania’s stated goal is to be the leader in sustainable transport solutions.
By taking a holistic view of Scania’s role in mobility and the logistics flow,
Scania can create greater value for customers, shareholders, the company and
society. The key to realizing this value, the report underlines, is to integrate
sustainability throughout the organization, in the business strategy and along
the value chain. How Scania is achieving this is the key theme of this year’s
report.

“It’s crystal clear to me that future growth in our sector must be different. We
need to chase down every opportunity we have to shift the sustainable transport
needle, cut carbon, improve logistics flows and make clean mobility easier”,
says Martin Lundstedt, Scania’s President and CEO. “I’m convinced that
sustainable transport is profitable transport – and Scania’s focus on
sustainability leadership is delivering good business results.”

The report underlines three focus areas that contribute to Scania’s leadership
striving: Proactively engage in transforming the transport industry; raise
standards and address risks in emerging markets, embed sustainability across our
organisation.

Report highlights:

  · Scania production and logistics operations defined a 2020 target to halve
its energy use per manufactured vehicle, using 2010 as its baseline.
  · Increased sales of Ecolution by Scania, which is a toolbox of services that
help customers dramatically reduce cost and carbon footprint while improving
road safety. At the end of 2013 more than 3,000 Ecolution by Scania vehicles
were on the road.
  · Increased focus on gender diversity. In 2014, Scania's global management
teams will identify and initiate actions to increase the share of women in
executive positions, setting clear targets for change.
  · Developed an updated sustainable sourcing program, formally adopted by the
Executive Board in 2014.
  · Scania was listed among Corporate Knights’ Global 100 most sustainable
companies in the world (http://scania.com/media/pressreleases/N14005EN.aspx).
  · Scania produced its first Integrated Annual Report this year, highlighting
the importance sustainability has for the company’s long-term business success
(http://scania.com/media/pressreleases/N14022EN.aspx).

Scania’s Sustainability Report 2013 is available at
www.scania.com/sustainability.

For more information, please contact Jens Schlyter, Public and Environmental
Affairs, tel. +46 8 553 535 20.
Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy
transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. Service-related
products account for a growing proportion of the company’s operations, assuring
Scania customers of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime Scania
also offers financial services. Employing some 41,000 people, the company
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 2013, net sales totalled SEK 86.8 billion and net income amounted
to SEK 6.2 billion. Scania press releases are available on
www.scania.com (http://www.scania.com/se)