Vieremä, Finland, 2015-06-10 15:09 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Ponsse AB acquires AN Maskinteknik in Norbotten
Ponsse's retailer in the Norrbotten area of Sweden, AN Maskinteknik Ab, will be owned by the Ponsse subsidiary Ponsse AB as of 31 August 2015. This corporate acquisition will promote Ponsse's services and strategy in Northern Sweden.
Located at Haparanda, AN Maskinteknik Ab is Ponsse's most long-standing retailer. It has been reselling and servicing PONSSE forest machinery in Norrbotten County of Sweden since 1989. The Swedish subsidiary of Ponsse was established in 1994 and it takes care of service and sales of PONSSE forest machines both in Sweden and Denmark.
AN Maskinteknik's business, currently owned by Veli and Kimmo Niskala, will be transferred to the ownership of Ponsse AB, and all the employees will be transferred to Ponsse AB as old employees. The service centre will continue to support servicing and spare part services also for Ponsse's Finnish customers in the Haparanda area.
Sales and Marketing Director Jarmo Vidgrén of Ponsse Plc appreciates the excellent customer service of AN Maskinteknik. "The work done by Veli Niskala in Norrbotten County has been groundbreaking. AN Maskinteknik has provided excellent service for the local wood harvesting contractors. The family business is very customer-centred, which offers us a great starting point for developing local services and the sales of machines," Vidgrén says.
Carl-Henrik Hammar, who will become the head of Ponsse AB as of the beginning of July, transferred to Ponsse from Stora Enso in March. After the corporate acquisition, Ponsse will have three service centres and 35 service dealers in different parts of Sweden and two in Denmark. The Haparanda service centre will reinforce Ponsse's own service centre network. Ponsse will be clearly visible in Northern Sweden this week: plenty of machines from the new PONSSE 2015 product line will be exhibited at the Skogsnolia forestry fair, which starts on Thursday in Umeå.
PONSSE OYJ
Jarmo Vidgrén
Sales and Marketing Director
FURTHER INFORMATION
Carl-Henrik Hammar, Managing Director, Ponsse AB, tel. +46 70 600 49 35
Jarmo Vidgrén, Sales and Marketing Director, Ponsse Plc, tel. +358 40 519 1486
Veli Niskala, Managing Director, AN Maskinteknik Ab +46 70 669 1686
Ponsse – a Finnish company created on a logging site
Forest machine entrepreneur Einari Vidgrén founded Ponsse in Vieremä in 1970. Today, the family company has experience of more than 10,000 PONSSE forest machines from logging sites around the world, and the company's operations are still guided by the needs of forest machine entrepreneurs. Ponsse manufactures sustainable, innovative wood harvesting solutions.
Ponsse has 11 subsidiaries and 28 retailers, and its service network covers almost 40 countries. This year, Ponsse celebrates its 45th anniversary.