Ssangyong Motor Company Hosts 『2010 SYMC Global Distributors Conference』 APR/29/2010

▪ Some eighty distributors from 41 countries participated in the conference that took place on April 26~29 and formed consensus on the company's business normalization issue.
▪ C200 was unveiled exclusively for overseas distributors for the first time, and successful launch in global market was reaffirmed through extensive appraisal tests.
▪ Distributors with excellent performance in the year 2009 were awarded, and participants shared hopes and vision for 2010 and upcoming years.
 
Ssangyong Motor Company (www.smotor.com) hosted 2010 SYMC Global Distributors Conference at Hyatt Regency Incheon, in Yeongjong Island, on April 26th; where over 80 overseas distributors from 41 countries participated.
 
This year's conference was held to find common grounds for the business goals set for 2010 and to discuss ways to expand exports. Distributors were also given an opportunity to have a hand-on experience with C200 through an appraisal test.
 
The conference started with a tour of the plant and production facilities in Pyeongtaek and participation in the conference in the morning of April 27, continued with appraisal test on C200 on the following day, and topped with the view of Busan International Motor Show on the 29th. Ssangyong Motor Company awarded six distributors with excellent performance in the previous year at the conference to encourage the distributors who had taken efforts to increase sales against all odds last year and asked participants to do their best to meet this year's export goal set at 45,000 units.
 
The Best Distributor of the Year Award was given to the Spanish distributor, a third-time winner following 2006 and 2007, and the Chile distributor won the Distributor of the Year Award. Distributors from Russia, Australia, Brazil and Turkey were also selected as distributors with high performance.
 
At the end of the conference, there was a special event called the "Global Families of Ssangyong Create Vision Art Wall," where all participants wrote their wishes and vision for 2010 and decorated an art wall with the messages.
 
"C200, the new product with years' of extensive effort, will hit the market later this year, and it is very important for our global distributors to achieve their sales target based on the distinctive marketing and service capability," said Lee Yoo-il, as a Legal Trustee of Ssangyong  Motor Company.