New organisation for Volvo Trucks

The Volvo Group's new truck organisation will sharpen the focus of its truck business by breaking down the marketing and sales responsibility for the Group's truck brands into three geographic areas. However, brands and product strategies will still be managed at a
global level. At the beginning of 2012, Claes Nilsson, Formerly President Europe Division, took over responsibility for the Group's largest truck brand, Volvo Trucks.

The aim of restructuring the business into three coherent sales and marketing regions – Americas (North and South America), EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia Pacific) – is to create an organisation which can meet its customers' needs more effectively and better exploit the commercial potential of the Group's different truck brands.

At the start of the year, Claes Nilsson became President Volvo Trucks EMEA Sales & Global Brand, with operational sales and marketing responsibility for the EMEA region. The position also involves responsibility for managing the global product strategy and developing the Volvo Trucks brand.

"I think that our new structure offers us significant opportunities. The strategy for Volvo Trucks has been in place for some time and is very much still valid. We will continue to develop Volvo Trucks' unique qualities and supply trucks which meet our customers' high standards and expectations," says Claes Nilsson.

The organisational changes came into effect at the start of the year. The new management team will continue to take a highly customer focused approach and will also be investing in expanding the service and aftermarket network.

"We already have more than 2,300 dealers and workshops all over the world and this figure will grow. Our relationship with our customers plays a central role and our business goes much further than just selling trucks. This is only the beginning of what we do. For us it is all about offering our customers effective transport solutions with guaranteed quality, safety and the greatest possible care for the environment,” he adds.

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