New name Tatra Trucks, Inc., and the new owners are legitimate
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Koprivnica – On Friday, the 19th April authorized the Office for Protection of Competition entry business ownership René Matera and Jaroslav Strnad in Tatra Trucks, Inc.
The oldest Czech carmaker and now control experienced entrepreneurs whose activities concern in particular the Czech industry. Former Tatra gets into the hands of Czech owners who proclaim that their aim is to stabilize the business relationships with key customers, banks regain confidence in the company and improve management and communication in the business.
According to Andrei Čírtka, which represents media company, will remain as long as necessary throughout the company current CEO Ronald Adams. Key managers are its representatives, Petr Rusek, with responsibility for strategy, business development and relationships with key customers and Radek Strouhal, responsible for financial management and relationships with partners providing financing. Under their leadership, meetings were held with key customers in the markets in the Czech Republic, India, Russia and Australia and meetings with key business partners in the banking sector.
Negotiations reportedly ending. Thanks to this situation, which was in the second half of 2012 in acute financial, manufacturing and sales crisis, managed to stabilize and establish production plan for this year, which allows for the production of 880 vehicles, up from the previous year, about double.
“To our ownership entry Tatry not, because from the beginning we wanted to own the famous Czech car manufacturer. Push us to the long development objective situation, which threatened extinction of our important trading partner. The reason for ownership changes is that the former owner of the business did not prosper and last year due to failure of a key contract got into a crisis, threatening its destruction. This caused the development leading to the execution of the company, its auction and then our asset joining the company Tatra Trucks, as that company has acquired at auction, “said entrepreneur René Matera, founder and majority owner of the industrial group Promet Group and co-owner of the company Tatra Trucks.
According to René Matera was the former owner of the company, the company Tatra, as, long enough period for another solution to the situation, but key shareholders apparently did not have the financial , managerial and commercial capacities to venture forth from the crisis on their own.“It is a great happiness that the company did not get into insolvency, which would end production and essentially extinction car. I also Jaroslav Strnad we in our business history prove that we can drive industry and can provide an outlet for their produce. I believe we have all the prerequisites to succeed in the Tatra Mountains. It is a huge challenge for us to return the company to where it belongs, the world’s leading car manufacturers in the segment of commercial and special vehicles , “said René Matera. (ipa)