Sollers Group boosts car, LCV sales 17% in two mths
MOSCOW. March 11 (Interfax) - Sollers Group boosted sales of cars and light commercial vehicles (LCV) by 17% year-on-year in January-February to 12,764 units, the group said.
February output rose 20% to 7,346 vehicles.
Sales of SsangYong cars produced by Sollers in the nine months increased 88% to 3,755 units in the two months after the new Actyon hit the market. UAZ car sales rose 9% to 6,968 units. Sales of Fiat cars fell 18% to 2,008 - Sollers ended cooperation with the Italian firm last year.
Sollers sold 33 Isuzu LCVs in the two months, down 15% from a year previously.
Sollers, formerly Severstal-Auto, manages the Ulyanovsk Automotive Plant, Zavolzhsky Motor Plant , Sollers-Naberezhniye Chelny, Sollers-Elabuga and Sollers-Far East. The company also has an engine manufacturing joint venture with Fiat Powertrain Technologies. Sollers produces UAZ, Fiat, Isuzu and SsangYong models in Russia.
