2002 a record year in South Africa: New regional head office in South Africa to coordinate business in the region

SCANIA PRESS INFO / Bo Östlund
21 February 2003


2002 a record year in South Africa: 
New regional head office in South Africa 
to coordinate business in the region 
 
Following its best year to date since it resumed 
operations in South Africa in 1995, Scania’s wholly 
owned subsidiary, South Africa Pty. Ltd., has opened a 
new head office at Aeroton, just west of Johannesburg, 
to coordinate activities in the entire southern 
African region. As part of this development, the assem-
bly of trucks and buses is being transferred to a new, 
joint facility.    

This will make Johannesburg the centre for Scania’s 
vehicle assembly operations in southern Africa. As a 
result, the bus assembly facility at Pietersburg, in 
the north of the country, will close.      

The new head office will be the hub around which the 
Scania’s business in the region will be further 
developed, not only in South Africa itself, but also 
in the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, 
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. 

Ulf Grevesmühl, MD of Scania South Africa Pty. Ltd., 
comments that the climate for investment in South 
Africa is favourable right now:

“Our business is developing in line with our plans. 
The year 2002 was our best ever following the 
resumption of operations in 1995, with total sales of 
650 trucks and buses. Of these, 110 trucks and 150 
buses were sold to the other countries in the region.”

The former truck assembly plant at Elandsfontein will 
now become a sales and service facility, while the 
former head office will concentrate exclusively on 
sales in the Johannesburg area.