Aftonbladet TV about creditors meeting
October 31, 2011 in News
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by TimR
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Interview Joachim Lind post creditors meeting
October 31, 2011 in News
I managed to catch Joachim Lind again after the creditors meeting and talked to him about what happened at the meeting and what the impressions of a person who was actually there.
Joachim Lind is CEO of ANA, the largest Saab dealership in Sweden and they have for a long time taken care of Saab’s company-car fleet as well as construction of special cars like Saab Police cars. Even though Saab stopped paying ANA a long time ago ANA decided not to take that out on the people having a company car and continued to service the cars even though they were not being paid by Saab.
by TimR
First photo of the new 9-3
October 31, 2011 in Uncategorized
Here it is:
This photo was featured first in SVD.se apparently and you can see more of it at this article:
http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/motor/har-ar-saabs-hopp_6596872.svd
by TimR
YES to continued reconstruction
October 31, 2011 in News
Saab gets to continue its reconstruction. It was decided just a few minutes ago during the creditors-meeting in Vänersborg. Not a single one of the creditors said no.
by Jeff
A Way Forward
October 31, 2011 in News
Thats paraphrased from the Reorganization Plan that Lofalk has published for the meeting today. It is available for public consumption in Swedish or English, but I’ve reproduced it after the break.
Most of the highlights have been covered here already this morning, but there are more tidbits leaking out now, like:
- 2012: 35.000 – 55.000 units are expected to be sold, sales are expected to rise to 78.000-86.000 in 2013.
- Dealer and Consumer Incentives
- New 9-3 in 2013/2014 [I believe this means a 2013 introduction with 2014 model year designation as the target]
- New Premium Compact (9-1/2)
- NG Premium Crossover (9-6X)
- New Executive Luxury Car (9-7)
- More local sourcing and licensing of tech to other Chinese partners
by Red J
Press release: Information On Restructuring Plan Saab Automobile
October 31, 2011 in News
Trollhättan, Sweden: Swedish Automobile N.V. (Swan) announces that Saab Automobile AB and its subsidiaries Saab Automobile Powertrain AB and Saab Automobile Tools AB (together Saab Automobile) today present their preliminary reorganization plan to their creditors during a creditors’ meeting in Vänersborg, Sweden.
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by TimR
EXTRA: Saab decreases number of staff
October 31, 2011 in News
Just in from the creditors meeting, Saab announced that it will decrease the number of employees by 500 people due to the low expected sales in 2015-2016. Total sales for these two years are expected to be around 200’000 cars.
by TimR
Press-Release: Saab Automobile Appoints Göran Ejbyfeldt As New Vice President & Head of Manufacturing and Quality
October 31, 2011 in News
Trollhättan, Sweden: Saab Automobile AB (Saab Automobile) has appointed Göran Ejbyfeldt as new Vice President & Head of Manufacturing and Quality effective 1 December.
Ejbyfeldt succeeds Gunnar Brunius, the current Vice President Manufacturing & Purchasing, who will pursue a new opportunity in his career with Volvo Aero AB.
Ejbyfeldt will assume responsibility of manufacturing on top of his current role as Executive Director Quality, Environment & IT.
Kjell-Åke Eriksson will be added to Saab Automobile’s top management team as Executive Director Purchasing and will report directly to CEO Victor Muller.
by TimR
Interview Joachim Lind ANA
October 31, 2011 in News
Joachim Lind is the CEO of ANA and one of Saab’s creditors, he was on his way to the creditors meeting when I caught him on the phone, and here is a small interview with him:
Interview Joachim Lind (m4a)
Interview Joachim Lind (mp4)
Interview Joachim Lind (wmv)
by TimR
Creditors meeting starts in 2 hours
October 31, 2011 in News
At 10:00 today central european time, thats when 1500 creditors will gather at City Hall in Vänersborg and listen to the new businessplan presented by Victor Muller and Guy Lofalk.
This time, just like during the last reconstructions, requests to form a creditors-Committee which will oversee operations at Saab.
For all of you not familiar with the area surrounding Trollhättan, Vänersborg is located about 10 km north of Trollhättan. Vänersborg is the regional capital of the area.
The city of Vänersborg is slightly smaller than Trollhättan with a population of about 22’000 people compared to the more than 55’000 people living in Trollhättan.
by TimR
7,5 Billions in investment expected in Saab
October 30, 2011 in News
Article translated from DN.se (original article here)
Pang Da and Youngman, who aspires to become owners of Saab, appears to be ready to commit a total of 7,5 billion swedish crowns within the next two years. Meanwhile there are many who will express their thoughts before Saab can become a chinese company. First of are the creditors who get their saying tomorrow. If they believe in the deal, the first part of the journey eastbound has started.
by TimR
Update for our Facebook users
October 30, 2011 in SaabsUnited Related
For all of you coming to SaabsUnited via Facebook or who read the latest from SU on our Facebook is now getting a treat. Previously we’ve had to manually update the Facebook site each time we publish an article on SU. Some of our writers do not have a Facebook account so it was up to the rest of us to do that. Sometimes we were lagging behind several hours in the updates between SU and Facebook.
by TimR
SaabsUnited version 2,0
October 30, 2011 in SaabsUnited Related
As many of you guys know we’re working pretty hard on expanding SaabsUnited and making the website more flexible. We have added a number of features to the version that we got when the website was transferred to us from Swade.
Well, this theme and version of wordpress that we are using has its limits and for a while now we have been looking at other foundations to run SaabsUnited on. WordPress still is the best system but with the addition of a very cool tool called BuddyPress we are able to expand the functionality of the user-segment of the website.
So now I’d like to give you a sneak peak at SaabsUnited 2,0 which is a much more user oriented website.
by Red J
The beauty of a Saab instrument cluster
October 30, 2011 in Saabology
Back in January I wrote a post on the instrument cluster of the 9-5 with the title I want my colours back.
Back then I said that I wanted Saab to move back to such an instrument panel as in the 9-5 first gen and the 9-3 first gen, or even the 9000, I think the instrument cluster was one of the reasons I bought my first Saab.
Today one of our readers has sent us one of those special pictures, at least for people who like numerology.
by JasonPowell
Thoughts From Dealer World
October 29, 2011 in Editorial
The past six months or so have been trying to say the least for those of us in Saabs dealer world. We can look back to when this all started and the first shut down at the plant that was started when one supplier stopped deliveries, the start up shut down that happened shortly after. We can see how just as things were looking up and volumes were starting to be realized, the rug was pulled out from under us. For the first three months of 2011 Saab had sold just shy of 10,000 cars worldwide and were poised to release the 9-4X and 9-5 sport combi that was sure to add to sales volume. As dealers, management and sales staff, we can look back on all of this and be frustrated or we can look forward to the rebirth or whatever symbolism you would like to use for this great brand of ours. We still have a lot to be proud of and we now have partners that are ready to invest the money needed for us to all enjoy good times once again.
