Freight Carrier Ltd. “Kreiss“110 to buy 110 for nine million euros”Ford Trucks F-Max tractors, informed Mario Raugulis, director of SIA “ZK9”, the official representative of “Ford Trucks” in Latvia.
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Kreiss has currently delivered 70 Ford Trucks F-Max cars and a total of 110 are expected to be delivered by the end of the year.
By November, ZK9 has delivered a total of 77 Ford Trucks F-Max tractors to customers in Latvia. By the end of this year, ZK9 plans to register up to 140 Ford Trucks in Latvia.
In the spring of this year, receiving the right to represent Ford Trucks in Latvia, ZK9 created a fleet of test cars to give to potential customers for testing. In the first half of the year, trade performance has been better than in the immediate neighborhood.
Selim Jazici, Ford Trucks’ regional manager for Central and Eastern Europe, says Kreiss’s order is one of the largest in the region. “This is one of the largest fleet orders in the region, but I am sure that others will follow soon. Latvia is already approaching the 7% market share mark, but in some countries we have even 10% market share, and our market share is improving every year,” he said. Jazichi.
Kreiss and ZK9 have the same owners.
Sergei Zelizko, a member of the board of Kreiss, says that Ford Trucks F-Max cars were little known in the European market, so it was a difficult decision to place such a large order.
“We may have started with a small number of cars in the beginning, but we took a risk and now we are confident that we have made the right choice,” says Zelizko.
Raugulis points out that “ZK9” will definitely continue to work with test cars. It is planned to purchase new test cars next spring.
“Kreiss” was registered in 1994, and the company’s share capital is 36 million euros, according to “Firmas.lv” information. The company’s turnover in 2020 was 161.059 million euros, but the profit – 2.544 million euros. Kreiss is owned by AS Honor Invest.
ZK9 was registered in 2009 and has a share capital of 600,000 euros. The company’s turnover in 2020 was 9.042 million euros and profit – 50,442 euros. This company is also owned by Honor Invest.
The real beneficiaries of Honor Invest are Andrei Kuznetsov and Sergey Zalizko.
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