Škoda Transportation in City For The Future at Expo 2022 Dubai

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PPF Group is an international investment group founded in the Czech 
Republic in 1991. It has grown to manage operations in 25 countries around the world.

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A traditional Czech engineering brand supplying top-class vehicles for operation in urban public transport systems and on railways.

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Škoda Group

The flagship of the &Scaron;koda Group is &Scaron;koda Transportation. An important arm of the group is TEMSA, which it controls jointly with Sabanci Holding. The group&rsquo;s key business regions are the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Baltics, Poland, and Slovakia.
&Scaron;koda Group develops a full range of public transport solutions for trains, trams, the metro, trolleybuses, and various types of buses, accompanied by&nbsp;comprehensive servicing and maintenance. The group is moving increasingly towards sustainable transport of the future and solutions for the data-driven, connected mobility infrastructure of future smart cities using 5G connectivity. The group has a digital division dedicated to the development and innovation of digital, control, and diagnostic systems for vehicles. &Scaron;koda Group&rsquo;s vehicles are environmentally friendly, with almost all of them running purely on electricity and producing no emissions. In 2021, &Scaron;koda also launched the development of a new-generation hydrogen drive buses.

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, &Scaron;koda Group still significantly increased its profitability, sales, and new orders in 2021. Despite global supply chain problems and labour shortages, &Scaron;koda scaled up production and launched new projects for foreign markets, reflecting its status as a leading exporter that dispatches some 60% of its orders abroad. In 2021, the group recorded sales of EUR 614 million, EBITDA of EUR 45 million, and a net profit of EUR 33 million. The number of group employees increased by 26% year on year to some 6,500 (8,000 including TEMSA). There was also a solid rise in the volume of work contracted, which increased to around EUR 3.6 billion.* This means that the group&rsquo;s production capacity will be full until approximately 2025. In 2021, &Scaron;koda invested EUR 71 million in, among other things, an increase in production capacity in Plzeň, Ostrava, and &Scaron;umperk.
*Unaudited consolidated figures based on international accounting standards for the 2021 financial year. Revenues do not include TEMSA&rsquo;s results as this company is consolidated using the IFRS equity method. The number of employees at TEMSA (a 50% joint venture) is included in the total.

In 2021, Ostrava-based Ekova Electric (now &Scaron;koda Ekova) was incorporated into &Scaron;koda Group and added the production of new trams to its existing servicing and upgrading operations. Last year, &Scaron;koda Group delivered RegioPanter electric trains and InterJet carriages to its largest railways customer, Česk&eacute; dr&aacute;hy, and introduced new-generation push-pull trains for the Moravian-Silesian Region. During the year, the group made trainsets for the Warsaw metro and trams for German cities, and progressed to further stages in the delivery of solutions to the cities of Plzeň and Ostrava. Trams for Riga and NIM Express trains for Germany were also delivered. New contracts include the delivery of electric trains to&nbsp;Slovakia and trolleybuses for a number of European cities. The delivery of the first electric buses for Prague was an electromobility milestone.

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An international leader in public transport solutions. &Scaron;koda is consolidating its market position by innovating, digitalising, and broadening its extensive portfolio of vehicles and services. &Scaron;koda Group&rsquo;s growth has facilitated significant investment in production capacity and jobs.

At all sites where it operates, &Scaron;koda Group supports education and CSR activities, promotes topics related to transportation and mechanical engineering, and cooperates with technical universities.
&Scaron;koda Group is a long-term partner to sports clubs in the regions where it operates, such as Pilsen&rsquo;s HC &Scaron;koda Plzeň Extraliga club, the First Hockey League club Draci Pars &Scaron;umperk, Ostrava's football team Ban&iacute;k, and the athletics club &Scaron;koda Plzeň. In Pilsen, it is also the sponsor of the &Scaron;koda Sport Park and the &Scaron;kodaland sports complexes. &Scaron;koda Plzeň also supports the Městsk&aacute; charita Plzeň (a municipal charitable organization), Ovahelp in Ostrava, and many more individuals and organizations.

Supporting Local Communities

&Scaron;koda Transportation Group&rsquo;s vision for future cities is a solution designed to introduce safer and more sustainable public transport while providing improved passenger services and more pleasant urban environments. Compatible with the European C-Roads Platform, the system introduces shared parameters for smart transport solutions. &Scaron;koda and its partners have been testing a pilot project with these features in real-world traffic in Plzeň since autumn 2021 and have geared the system towards solutions which meet the future needs and developments of cities across Europe and the world.

Plzeň-based Škoda at the World Expo in Dubai

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