ITEC 2014: New orders signal recovery for Saab T&S
Whilst Saab Training and Simulation admitted that it had a hard time last year, so far in 2014 it has secured an intake of orders that is above those received for the whole of 2013.
Briefing journalists at the ITEC 2014 exhibition in Cologne, Hans Lindgren, head of marketing and sales for Saab Training and Simulation, said that the company has never had a better order intake at this time of the year.
Lindgren said that smaller awards secured in early 2014 from South Africa for its GAMER manpack via its Grintek subsidiary; from the UK for the Small Arms
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