Ladog is a leading manufacturer of narrow gauge and compact vehicles for municipalities, industry and agriculture and employs around 60 people in Germany. The company specialises primarily in vehicles for clearing and cleaning, mowing and vacuuming in public spaces.
‘With the acquisition of Ladog, we are ideally complementing our product portfolio in the narrow gauge vehicle sector and can offer our customers an even broader portfolio,’ says Barend Fruithof, Group CEO of Aebi Schmidt.
‘With the sale to Aebi Schmidt, Ladog benefits from the strong international sales and service network,’ says Björn Guggenbühler, managing director and main shareholder of Ladog. ’In the future, we will benefit from the innovative strength of a larger group and, as a result, will be able to grow strongly.’
The Aebi Schmidt Group is a globally leading provider of intelligent solutions for customers who care for clean and safe infrastructure and cultivate challenging grounds and has grown strongly in recent years. The Group's diverse range of products includes its own vehicles as well as innovative attachable and demountable devices for individual vehicle equipment. It is active in both Europe and the North America and is targeting sales of 1 billion euros in the near future.