Be-Ge Seating AB

Be-Ge Seating AB develops, manufactures and markets suspended and fixed driver seats, passenger seats and accessories for these. Customer-specific products are also developed on assignment for OEM customers.

The company’s products are well-known and popular with drivers of commercial vehicles, trucks and buses, forestry and construction machinery, industrial trucks and cranes, and all others who sit at their workplaces.

The past year

During the financial year, volumes and turnover recovered on the whole compared with the previous year. This recovery has, however, been limited due to the difficulties of the entire supply chain, both suppliers and customers, in securing deliveries of materials and components. Order intake was at a relatively high, stable level throughout the year. There was a positive impact on turnover with the start of batch deliveries for several new customised seat projects. Additional customer projects were carried out during the year, which will result in seat deliveries during the next financial year.

Continued restrictions for large parts of the year meant that customer meetings primarily took place digitally. A new showroom was built to enable digital product demonstrations.

Over the course of the financial year, the company’s own material supplies were increasingly affected by material and component shortages. The situation has varied very significantly between different types of material. The primary countermeasures, in order to minimise the effects, have been building up inventory and alternative logistics solutions. Delivery reliability was adversely affected, but to a limited extent.

Purchase prices for materials and components increased significantly during the year, and the company was able to partially compensate for the higher costs through adjusted sales prices and rationalisation work.

Production of the new generation of truck seats, with a mechanical and an air-sprung variant, started during the year, with final assembly now being performed at the company’s facility in Oskarshamn. In the latter part of the financial year, work began to increase the production capacity for the company’s 3000 series seats. Several development projects for new products and rationalisation projects were carried out during the year, which are expected to be launched in the next financial year.

301

Turnover, SEK million

111

Number of employees

ADDRESS: Box 912, 572 29 Oskarshamn, Sweden VISITING ADDRESS: Gjutaregatan 4, Oskarshamn PH: +46 491-76 18 00 EMAIL: info.se.seating@be-ge.com WEBSITE: se.seating.be-ge.com CIN: 556156-3643 DOMICILE: Oskarshamn, Sweden