Bernd Ludewig, the head of OOO CLAAS Vostok since 2011 and also held the post of Regional Director for Eastern Europe at CLAAS Global Sales GmbH and Regional President for Eastern Europe at CLAAS Global Sales GmbH, left the CLAAS Group to pursue his career outside the group.

Dirk Seelig was born on 21 may 1969 in the city of Altenburg (Germany). After graduating from the Berlin technical University on the specialty "Business management", Mr. Seelig for 15 years he worked in various positions in the group of companies of Daimler AG, and from 2003 to 2010 he was a member of the Board of CJSC "Mercedes Benz RUS". For the position of Deputy General Director of OOO CLAAS Vostok in sales, marketing and aftersales Dirk Seelig was appointed in 2013 To 2014, he was elected Chairman of the Committee on agriculture of the European business Association and continues to hold this position according to the unanimous opinion of my colleagues on the Committee.

"All of the key products of the company CLAAS-combine harvesters, tractors and forage technology, the Russian market is a strategic direction of development of the group. Helping farmers to improve the productivity and profitability of your business today, we are laying the Foundation for the level of equipment of the Russian agroindustrial complex of modern high-performance machines has enabled the country in the future not only to fully provide itself with agricultural products, but also actively to increase the potential of one of the world's leading suppliers of food," - said General Director of OOO CLAAS Vostok Dirk Seelig.

We will remind, OOO CLAAS Vostok is a group company of CLAAS in Russia, which is responsible for sales, marketing and after-sales maintenance of equipment CLAAS. Headquartered in Moscow. In addition to the structure of the company includes a warehouse of spare parts in city Klimovsk (Moscow oblast) and CLAAS training Academy in the city of Voronezh. CLAAS dealer network from 18 distribution partners stretches across the country from Kaliningrad region to Primorsky Krai. To date, more than 60 dealerships with more than 1000 employees in key 43 regions of Russia.

On the CLAAS

CLAAS (www.claas.com) was founded in 1913 as a family business, and she is now one of the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery. The company is headquartered in the Westphalian town of Harsewinkel is the European market leader in combine harvesters. Global leadership CLAAS reserves and in the field of self-propelled forage harvesters. Leading positions on the world market of agricultural machinery owned by the company CLAAS in the field of tractors, agricultural balers and forage equipment. The company assortment includes the most modern information technology in the field of agriculture. Today around the world CLAAS has approximately 11,000 employees. 2019 turnover for the year amounted to 3,898 billion euros.

In Russia the company works since 1992. In 2003 it started production of combine harvesters. Currently, the plant "KLAAS" in Krasnodar is fourth largest among the 13 manufacturing enterprises of concern worldwide. The plant produces TUCANO combine harvesters and tractors, the AXION, XERION.

Marketing techniques arranged through a sales company "CLAAS Vostok" in Moscow with the participation of 19 partner companies, which operate on the territory of Russia.