OREANDA-NEWS. GAZ Group, part of Russia's largest diversified industrial group Basic Element, signed a distribution agreement with the Eastern European Company Verano Motors to sell GAZelle NEXT light commercial vehicles in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

GAZ Group signed an agreement with Verano Motors to sell the NEXT family vehicles in the states of the South-Eastern Europe. Start of sales of the Euro-5 GAZelle NEXT LCVs is planned for Q2 2015. At the beginning they will be sold by nine dealer centers. Verano Motors will also sell AWD GAZelle Business and Sobol Business vehicles.

Verano Motors is a part of one of the major Balkan groups - Verano Group. It has been the official dealer of Peugeot in Serbia,Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1996. Training and certification of salespersons and service specialists for GAZ vehicles are currently in process in the dealer centers of the Republic of Serbia,Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

V. Sorokin, GAZ Group President:

"Signing an agreement with a new partner is a part of our strategy to extend sales to the non-CIS export markets. In 2014, we started producing and selling GAZelle Next in Turkey, obtained the unified European certificate confirming that our vehicles meet all the EU requirements. I am sure that the customers of the South-Eastern Europe will appreciate the high functionality and reliability of our vehicles which have the best price in its class".

The NEXT family vehicles designed using best technological solutions meet the state-of-the-art standards of ergonomics, reliability, safety and comfort. The vehicles were engineered based on the thorough survey of our customers' opinion using the engineering resources of the leading global component suppliers. Certification tests of GAZelle NEXT of Euro-5 standards were carried out by European IDIADA Automotive Technology S.A. (Spain). They confirmed compliance with 43 safety requirements. 113 global certificates were obtained.