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Rheinmetall and MAN Nutzfahrzeuge form joint company for wheeled military vehicles

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With the founding of Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH, the 
market for logistical and tactical military vehicles has an important
new provider of complete solutions.
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Joint Ventures/Cooperation/Collaboration/Military Vehicles
Subtitle: With the founding of Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles 
GmbH, the market for logistical and tactical military vehicles has an
important new provider of complete solutions.
Rheinmetall AG and MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG are
to form a joint company for military wheeled vehicles. A contract to 
this end has now been signed by the two companies. The new company, 
which will be known as Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RMMV),
is an important provider of complete solutions in the market for 
military wheeled vehicles, covering the entire range of armoured and 
unarmoured transport, command and role-specific vehicles for the 
international armed forces. Rheinmetall will have a stake of 51 
percent and MAN 49 percent in the new company, which will be 
headquartered in Munich. The plan is still subject to approval from 
the competition authorities.
"With this new company we are combining the strong MAN and 
Rheinmetall brands and the complementary technological core 
competencies of the two partners to form a globally operating system 
provider, which will present one face to the military customer with 
the goal of improving its position in the world market," said 
Dr.-Ing. Georg Pachta-Reyhofen, Chairman of the Executive Board of 
MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG at the signing of the contract. RMMV unites 
MAN's automotive expertise in commercial vehicle manufacture with 
Rheinmetall's technological know-how in the military field.
"The new company follows the trend towards the joint acquisition of 
logistical and tactical military vehicles, whose protective and 
mobility characteristics have become highly similar because of 
current operational conditions," explained Klaus Eberhardt, Chairman 
of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG. "With their joint 
enterprise MAN and Rheinmetall are at the same time making an 
important contribution to the necessary consolidation of military 
vehicle systems at national and European levels," Eberhardt 
continued.
The first step calls for the merging of the development and sales 
activities of the two companies in the military wheeled vehicle 
sector under the aegis of the new company, which thus takes over 
product and market responsibility. The second contractually agreed 
step sees the two companies' production capacities at the plants in 
Kassel (Rheinmetall) and Vienna (MAN Nutzfahrzeuge) integrated into 
the joint company by the end of 2011.
In the initial phase, RMMV will have around 370 employees; when the 
second step has been completed this will increase to around 1,300 
employees, whose annual turnover will amount to more than a billion 
euros.
About Rheinmetall: Rheinmetall is an international technology group 
serving the global defence and automotive sectors. Last year its 
20,000 employees generated some EUR3.4 billion in sales, including 
EUR1.9 billion in the defence sector. This makes Rheinmetall one of 
the world´s leading suppliers of systems and equipment for land 
forces. In the wheeled armoured vehicle segment the company offers an
extensive array of systems, ranging in weight from five to over 30 
tons. Its best-known vehicles include the Fuchs/Fox of which 1,250 
units are deployed by the German Armed Forces and the armed forces of
a further eight nations. In 2008, Rheinmetall Defence took over Stork
PWV in the Netherlands and is responsible for supplying a total of 
285 units in the framework of the German-Dutch program for building 
the Boxer armoured transport vehicle.
Responsibility for developing and manufacturing tracked armoured 
vehicles and turret systems remains with Rheinmetall Landsysteme 
GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rheinmetall AG. In 2009, 
Rheinmetall has had outstanding successes in winning major contracts 
for the new Puma infantry fighting vehicle and the new mortar combat 
system for the Federal Armed Forces as well as orders from abroad, 
totalling around 1.5 billion euros.
About MAN Nutzfahrzeuge: MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Gruppe, headquartered in 
Munich, Germany, is the largest company of the MAN Group and a 
leading international supplier of efficient commercial vehicles and 
innovative transport solutions. In fiscal 2008 the enterprise, with 
over 36,000 employees, posted sales of more than 96,000 trucks and 
over 7,200 buses and bus chassis of the MAN and NEOPLAN brands worth 
10.6 billion euros.
MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Österreich AG, headquartered in Steyr, is the 
Austrian subsidiary of the MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Gruppe and comprises the
Business Unit Light/Medium Trucks (production of commercial vehicles 
in this series in Steyr) and the Business Unit Military Division 
(development, production and sales of military trucks, based in 
Vienna). MAN has approximately 4,000 employees at its plants in Steyr
and Vienna plants. Sales worth 1.89 billion euros were posted in 
2008.
end of announcement                               euro adhoc

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