Markaryd, Sweden, 2011-04-18 15:15 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NIBE acquired an initial 25% stake in EVAN in 2007, followed by further tranches of 26% and 24% in 2008 and 2009 respectively.
EVAN has 150 employees. Annual sales are equivalent to approximately SEK 120 million (EUR 13.3 million), with an operating margin of just over 20%. The company was established in 1996.
EVAN is a market leader in Russia for electric boilers and large electric water heaters. Thanks to a well-established network of more than 100 distributors with close links to the company, EVAN reaches the entire Russian market.
“From a strategic point of view, making serious inroads into the large and expanding Russian market is absolutely the right move for NIBE Energy Systems to make,” says Gerteric Lindquist, CEO of the NIBE Group.
“Since we first took a stake in EVAN, the company has also started to sell NIBE heat pumps on the ever expanding and increasingly attractive Russian market.”