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MOTORINDIA
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June 2012
Eberspaecher sales picking up
with steady growth in demand
The Eberspaecher Group conclud-
ed the 2011 financial year on an en-
couraging note. Its sales during the
year rose by 34 per cent, for the first
time above the level of 2008, the
year proceding the worldwide reces-
sion. As an annual average, the total
number of employees grew over 12
per cent. For 2012, management ex-
pects sales to stabilize, with stronger
growth in the coming years.
In 2011, Eberspaecher posted
sales totalling 2,590.5 million eu-
ros, representing an increase of 34
per cent compared with the previous
year or a rise of nearly 27 per cent
after deduction of transitory items.
As an annual average, the company
employed 6,331 workers and gen-
erated net income of 76.3 million
euros. “Eberspaecher profited from
the new exhaust-emission standards
and from the good business situation
in the commercial vehicle market,
but in the passenger car sector too,
domestic and foreign demand was
exceptionally high”, said the Man-
aging Partner, Mr. Martin Peters, at
the annual press conference.
In the largest division, Exhaust
Technology, sales of 2,141.6 mil-
lion euros were posted in 2011, and
the turnover of this division, ad-
justed for transitory items, reached
1,016.1 million euros. Eberspaecher
was able to expand in North Amer-
ica in line with the growing market
for the technologically sophisticated
exhaust-gas aftertreatment of com-
mercial vehicles and is planning to
extend appropriate capacity.
Moreover, the company has been
preparing for the Euro 6 exhaust-
emission standard for commercial
vehicles coming into force in Eu-
rope from 2014. With this in mind,
a new production site has been built
in Wilsdruff near Dresden, and in
Sweden a controlling interest has
been acquired in Swenox AB.
Eberspaecher has thus been able
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