Saab takes importer's business to 4m euros

Augusta Motors, the official importer to Romania of the Swedish vehicles Saab, estimates a turnover worth 14.2 million RON (4 million euros) for this year, up from 11.4 million RON (3.15 million euros) last year. The company posted a turnover worth 8.5 million RON (2.44 million euros) in the first nine months of the year, with the bulk of it, 80%, derived from the sale of vehicles, and the rest from service activities. The company, set up in 2000 by Horatiu Ionescu and Catalin Stoica, this week opened a new headquarters with a surface area of 5,000 square metres in the Pipera-Tunari area. “To Augusta Motors, the opening of the new Saab centre marks the end of a five-year cycle and the beginning of another. Now, differences among premium vehicles are less and less obvious and, fortunately, when deciding on buying one brand or another, service quality plays an important role,” said Horatiu Ionescu, general manager of Augusta Motors.