Scania’s distributor in the UK included in British competition authority investigation

​Scania’s UK subsidiary has, as today have been reported in the media, together with a number of other international truck companies become subject of an investigation initiated by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the British competition authority.

Scania’s British subsidiary has received a letter from the OFT as part of the investigation and will cooperate fully with OFT during the course of the forthcoming investigative work. Scania has no further comment on this matter.

For further information, please contact: Hans-Åke Danielsson, Press Manager,
tel +46 8 553 856 62.

Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. A growing proportion of the company’s operations consists of products and services in the financial and service sectors, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime. Employing some 32,000 people, Scania 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 2009, net sales totalled SEK 62 billion and net income amounted to SEK 1.1 billion. Scania press releases are available on www.scania.com