Komatsu Forest Oy and DOJUS Group have made an agreement about Komatsu forest machine dealership including new and used machine sales and also spare part and service sales. The agreement is valid from April 1st of this year.
“With this agreement DOJUS Group gets Komatsu, one of the world’s leading forest machine brands, to our product range which completes our company’s commitment in forest machinery”, says Audrius Kavaliauskas, Managing Director at DOJUS Group, and continues that DOJUS company has excellent opportunity to serve forest machine customers and strengthen Komatsu brand in the Lithuanian and Kaliningrad market. DOJUS Group’s main business areas have so far been in agriculture machinery, but the company also has a special machine department for forestry machinery and equipment.
“We see big opportunities in the forestry sector which is one of our main business areas. Partnership with Komatsu Forest is a valuable step forward and great news to our customers”, says Donatas Dailide, CEO of DOJUS Group.
DOJUS group employs 340 people in Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Kaliningrad having turnover of 115 MEur. Komatsu forest machine agreement covers Lithuania.
“To start the Komatsu forest machine dealership with DOJUS Group in Lithuania is an important part of Komatsu Forest’s long-term strategy in the Baltic market area, says managing director of Komatsu Forest Oy Jari Alahuhtala in Kaunas after signing the agreement with DOJUS Group 19th of March.
“Our realistic goal is to raise our share in machine sales and after sales products in the Lithuanian market and the agreement with DOJUS Group will already in short term raise Komatsu Forest’s ability to answer to modern technology requirements and improve serving forest machine customers also in longer term perspective, continues Alahuhtala.
Komatsu Forest Oy has been re-organizing the Baltic dealership structure during the last two and half years. Sia Haitek Latvia started 2,5 years ago as Komatsu Forest’s Latvian dealer and the results have been positive. In the beginning of February this year, the machine sales agreement was signed with MFO OÜ in Estonia. Lithuanian arrangement with DOJUS Group will be the latest in this rearrangement activity.
Komatsu Forest Oy, located in Pirkkala Finland is a daughter company of Komatsu Forest AB, one of the main forest machine manufacturers in the world. Komatsu Forest manufactures Komatsu forest machines in Umeå Sweden and Chattanooga, USA. Komatsu Forest’s sales network covers the whole world where forestry is actively performed. Komatsu Forest aB is 100% owned by Komatsu Ltd.