VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The plant has been in existence since 1932 and is the leading company in the GAZ Group.
The plant manufactures light trucks, medium capacity trucks (from 2.8 to 8.2 tonnes of carrying capacity), minibuses seating between 6 and 14 people, vans, chassis, and heavy trucks. Overall, GAZ manufactures over 300 varieties of vehicles, including ambulances, school buses, tankers, dump trucks, tow trucks, shop-vans, mobile labs, collector cars, and law enforcement vehicles. In addition, the company manufactures auto components.
The most popular GAZ brands are Gazel, Sobol (including the Business family of vans), Valdai, Sadko, and GAZ. The company has 270 dealers and 240 service centres across Russia and the CIS countries. It employs 25,833 people at facilities across Russia. The average monthly salary is 20,637 roubles.
The company has produced 80,368 vehicles in the first 11 months of 2010 and by year's end its output is expected to total 89,218 vehicles, accounting for a 67% increase compared to 2009.
GAZ Group has been a major recipient of state auto industry support programmes. In 2010, the group received about 9.9 billion roubles in government support.
1. In 2010, federal executive bodies purchased 5,780,000 roubles worth of GAZ-made vehicles and road-building machinery (Russian Government Executive Order No. 2079-r of December 25, 2009).
2. Approximately 1,600 vehicles and road equipment worth 3.8 billion roubles were purchased by the Russian regions through subsidies provided by the federal government for use in municipal economies (Russian Government Resolution No. 1184 of December 31, 2009).
3. Under the car trade-in programme, 6,068 vehicles worth 303.4 million roubles were sold (Russian Government Resolution No. 1194 of December 31, 2009).
4. The company received 23.1 million roubles in interest rate compensation on extended loans for technical re-equipment (Russian Government Resolution No. 262 of March 30, 2009).
In 2010, GAZ has been modernising its model line up, including launching the Gazel-Business in February to replace the obsolete Gazel van. The new vehicle has over 20 structural and more than 130 technological alterations.
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