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was leading the charge for expanding the family firm’s reach beyond european shores. Rumours of construction growth and mining prospects in the Asia Pacific region provided the perfect excuse for a big OE. Fortunately for him (and us) the whispers were true, and although we’d been ‘worldwide’ for ages, we knew that our Swedish flair for precision european design and componentrycoupled with a state of art assembly facility closer to this rich, new world would allow us to become extremely competitive and create new opportunities for our antipodean customers. So we bought Samsung in 1998. In doing so we also became the first foreign company to invest in Korea. We dig that.

0800 848 267 www.transdiesel.com

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