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Bogdan Corporation (Ukrainian: Корпорація «Богдан» Korporatsiya Bohdan) — is an automobile-manufacturing group in the Ukraine, including several car and bus-makers of the country.
The production capacities of Bogdan corporation allow to make 120-150 thousand passenger cars, up to 9 thousand buses and trolleys in all classes, as well as about 15 thousand trucks and specialized vehicles. The plants of the company are located in Lutsk and Cherkasy.
Subject ID: 66660
MoreBogdan Corporation (Ukrainian: Корпорація «Богдан» Korporatsiya Bohdan) — is an automobile-manufacturing group in the Ukraine, including several car and bus-makers of the country.
The production capacities of Bogdan corporation allow to make 120-150 thousand passenger cars, up to 9 thousand buses and trolleys in all classes, as well as about 15 thousand trucks and specialized vehicles. The plants of the company are located in Lutsk and Cherkasy.
Bogdan Corporation was created in 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, by the mergers of some former Soviet enterprises to implement big investment projects dedicated to creating strong and powerful manufacturing of different-type vehicles in Ukraine. Initially, the company was a distributor of various Russian-based vehicles, later selling vehicles by Korean manufacturer, Kia Motors.
In 1998, the company obtained the Cherkasy automobile repair factory that was specializing in repairing buses of the Russian-based Pavlovo Bus Factory and GAZelle.
In 1999, the factory was transformed into the "Cherkasy Autobus" that began manufacturing its own buses, Bogdan. That same year, the company signed another contract with Hyundai for distribution of their vehicles.
In 2000, the company bought the bankrupted Soviet LuAZ based in Lutsk (Volyn Oblast), and during the same period, started to produce its own cars based on the Russian AvtoVAZ. In 2003, the company's began exporting the buses.
Subject ID: 66660
Subject ID: 66660
