Date published: 01.09.08 - not release date

Mascus Expands in the Baltics: Five Person Team in Lithuania

Mascus open a new office in Kaunas, Lithuania to support local sales, marketing and customer service.

27th February 2008 - Mascus, the European electronic marketplace for used machinery and transportation vehicles, in cooperation with Motors24 Group, has opened a new office in Kaunas, Northern Lithuania. So far Mascus has had a team of four in Tallinn/Estonia, five employees in Riga/Latvia and a telesales team in Lithuania.

Selling and buying used equipment in Lithuania the Baltic States
“Mascus and Motors24 have been the only marketplaces active in all of the Baltic countries and their cooperation makes sales of used machines and trucks easier within each and between the Baltic countries. Machines placed at mascus.lt are visible on mascus.lv in Latvia and on mascus.co.ee in Estonian and vice-versa. As well, Mascus website is available in Russian for Russian-speaking buyers. Thanks to Mascus presence in Russia and Ukraine, traders from the Baltic countries will have possibilities to sell machines on these two significant markets", says Lauri Tonspoeng, Director of Mascus Baltic and Motors24 group.

Better possibility to sell and buy machines for Lithuanian dealers
Mascus new team in Lithuania will be responsible for local sales, marketing and customer services in order to provide Lithuanian dealers with more opportunities to sell their used machines and trucks to local buyers and to export them to other Baltic and CIS countries. "For the same price, a used piece of machinery, placed for sale on Mascus.lt, will also be visible on heavy.motors24.lt, heavy.motors24.co.ee, heavy.motors24.lv. This will increase sales opportunities. With an additional service called Mascus Plus, dealers will be able to effortlessly update their own web pages in their own Baltic States' language or any other European languages, without need for translation. Moreover, with the help of Mascus Plus, an ad placed on the dealers' own web page will automatically become visible on Mascus.lt" comments Gediminas Velicka, Country Manager of Mascus Lithuania.

European-wide purchase possibilities for Lithuanian buyers
Lithuanian construction, transportation, logistic, warehousing, forestry and communal companies and farmers will have a possibility to choose from wide selection. These include used Transportation Vehicles (e.g. trucks, trailers, vans, buses), Construction Machines (e.g. excavators, dumpers, backhoe loaders), Agricultural Machines (e.g. tractors, harvesters), Forklifts, Forest and Groundscare machines; not only from Lithuania or other Baltic States but also from over 26 000 machines from Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia.

"Thanks to Mascus' on-going internationalisation process, new countries are constantly incorporated which increases buyers and sellers' opportunities to trade their used machines and trucks locally and internationally" concluded Fredrik Larsson, Director of Mascus.



Contacts:
Lauri Tonspoeng, Director of Mascus Baltic and Motors24 Group +372 51 2128, lauri@motors24.ee
Fredrik Larsson, Director, +46 (70) 305 1140, fredrik.larsson@mascus.com
Gediminas Velicka- Country Manager, Lithuania. +370 (37) 214722, gediminas@motors24.lt

For more info, please visit: mascus.lt

Mascus is an electronic marketplace for used equipment, machinery and trucks. Mascus makes trading in used machines and trucks quicker and more efficient by collecting in one place information about the supply and the demand. All dealers, producers and end users are welcome to offer their used machines and trucks for sale via the marketplace.