BTS Group AB receives 8 million SEK order from Terra-Gruppen AS in Norway
Stockholm, Sweden- BTS Group AB (publ), the world's leading consulting and
training company within the segment of business simulations has been assigned by
Terra-Gruppen AS in Norway to develop and deliver a program in strategic
business acumen and value based leadership, worth approximately 8 million SEK.
Terra-Gruppen AS is a finance group jointly owned by 79 savings banks that
to-gether with Terra-Gruppen constitutes one of the largest and leading players
within the Norwegian finance industry.
The program's objectives are to convey a common picture of the Terra-alliance's
business situation and strategies, to strengthen business acumen and give a
better understanding of the industry, and to develop a value and performance
based leadership for approximately 100 bank managers and leaders within
Terra-alliance.
The participants will go through a leadership program, spanning four modules and
focusing on business acumen, customer understanding, and leadership. The
partici-pants will be working with the proven BTS methodology of experience
based learn-ing that has been designed, developed, and tailored to reflect
Terra-alliance's indus-try and future challenges. The program will be delivered
in cooperation with Saga Corporate Advisors.
“We are proud that Terra-Gruppen AS has chosen BTS and Saga Corporate Advi-sors
for this strategic program”, says Jonas Stalder, Head of BTS Norway. “This is
further proof of our ability to deliver high quality and comprehensive projects
for or-ganizations in change.”
BTS Group largely works with big, international companies. Some recent examples
of companies where BTS has worked with strategic projects include: Coca-Cola,
Weyerhaeuser, General Motors, Vodafone, Boeing, Telstra, Adobe, Hewlett
Pack-ard, Cisco, DHL, Honda, Toyota, Gap, SonyEricsson, Nokia, Scania and Sony.
For more information, please contact;
Thomas Ahlerup
Senior Vice President
Investor & Corporate Communications
BTS Group AB
Direct +46-8-5870 7002
Mobil +46-768-966 300
E-mail thomas.ahlerup@bts.com
About Terra-Gruppen AS
Terra-Gruppen AS is a bank alliance and one of Norway's leading finance groups
owned by 79 independent and local sav-ings banks. The Terra-bank has a
collective capital of approximately NOK 130 billion. Terra-Gruppen, the
financial group, offers financial services and products to Norwegian banks. The
most important product companies are Terra Securities, Terra Fondsforvaltning,
Terra kapitalforvaltning, Terra Forsikring, Terra Boligkreditt, Terra / AKTIV
Eiendomsmegling, Terra Finans and Terra Kort. Terra-Gruppen's products are
distributed through close to 400 offices in Norway. Terra-Gruppen is also
responsible for the procurement of services and products within for instance IT
and payment mediation for the Terra-banks.
For more information about the company, visit www.terra.no
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 un-derstand and have the ability to analyze 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
experi-ences 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 often 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 millions (286.1) and a result after tax of SEK 38.6
millions (36.8). BTS has today approximately 200 employees in Sweden, Finland,
UK, Spain, Holland, 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
