20.02.2023

Merlo appoints Swecon

Italian telehandler manufacturer Merlo has appointed Swecon as its construction telehandler distributor for the Baltic states.

Swecon is the Volvo construction equipment distributor for all three countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The company has a base in each of them with a total of eight service locations across the region. It will assume responsibility for all sales, service and replacement parts provision for the Merlo machines that it represents.

In Estonia its base is on the edge of Haapsalu, on the coast to the south west of Tallinn, Swecon Latvia it is based in the capital Riga and the Lithuanian business is located on the north side of Vilnius.
Peter Einarsson, chief executive of Swecon Baltics said: "I believe that cooperation with Merlo complements our product range in order to be an even more attractive partner for our customers."
(The contract is ageed - \(L-R\) Niklas Lindberg and Peter Einarsson of Swecon with Paolo Merlo and Alberto Dutto of Merlo)
Swecon can trace its roots back to 1946 or earlier when the Swedish agricultural co-operative Lantmännen began distributing tractors produced by Bolinder-Munktell - branded BM - in Northern Sweden. In 1950 the manufacturer was acquired by Volvo (rebranded as Volvo BM in 1970) with the distributor gaining the right to distribute the tractors nationally in 1962.

Swecon was set up within Lantmännen at the start of 1999, with the merging of 10 independent dealers into the business. Swecon began its operations in the Baltic states in 2002 in order to handle Volvo CE throughout the region, the partnership with Volvo was extended still further when it acquired the Volvo distributor in Germany - Könicke Baumaschinen - in 2010. Today Swecon has around 1,300 employees, based across 100 service centres with more than 400 mobile service vans.