New Managing Director at VBG AB (publ)

New Managing Director at VBG AB (publ) Mr Anders Birgersson has been appointed as new managing director and CEO at VBG AB and also managing director at the subsidiary VBG Produkter AB. Mr Birgersson, born 1958, is presently employed in the ESAB Group as business manager Welding Equipment ESAB Europe. He will take up his duties on May 21, 2001. Present MD and CEO Mr Richard Persson will remain in the company until his retirement in mid 2002. st Vänersborg, February 1 2001 VBG AB (publ) The Board VBG AB in Vänersborg is the parent company of an engineering group with production facilities in Sweden and Germany and sales branches in Norway, Denmark and the USA. The business is concentrated on Truck Equipment - comprising of coupling equipment, fifth wheel, automatic tyre chains, drop side pillars and other equipment for heavy vehicles. An additional business area covers Machine Elements whose shaft-hub connections and friction springs are delivered to machine industry and high tech companies all over the world. The VBG B-share is registered on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/02/01/20010201BIT00870/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/02/01/20010201BIT00870/bit0002.pdf