News 2011

Financial year 2011 was a highly successful one for CLAAS. The company achieved the highest sales in its history, at €3,304.2 million, representing a rise of 33.5 % on the previous year’s figures and outperforming expectations.

Financial year 2011 was a highly successful one for CLAAS. The company achieved the highest sales in its history, at €3,304.2 million, representing a rise of 33.5 % on the previous year’s figures and outperforming expectations. Furthermore, CLAAS was able to expand its market position in most product groups. At approximately €255 million, CLAAS’ income before taxes has more than tripled on the previous year’s value.

Congratulations to Charlie Russell who having won the ‘Farm Manager of the Year’ award at this year’s Farmers Weekly Awards, then went on to win the prestigious overall ‘Farmer of the Year’ title.

CLAAS will reorganise its activities on the Austrian agricultural machinery market. On 1 October 2011, the company is opening a new CLAAS Regional Centre in Stockerau, north-west of Vienna. The new centre has good transport links and is easily accessible to all of our customers in the agricultural sector.

Romania has become a much more important player in the European agricultural sector and is today the fourth largest market in Europe, based on the country's usable agricultural area. An increasing number of farmers and farm contractors are opting for CLAAS machinery in the central European state. Now, CLAAS has responded to the wishes of its Romanian customers by setting up a CLAAS Regional Center Romania and an exclusive dealership structure. The family-owned company CLAAS has thus clearly signalled its belief in the importance of the Romanian market and its positive economic development.