ZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- ZaporozhTransformator OJSC (ZTR), (Berlin: ZRTFq.BE; Frankfurt: ZRTFq.F; PFTS: ZATR), one of the largest Ukrainian manufacturers of electrical transformer equipment, announced today that as of May 20, its 2008 sales portfolio had reached US$610 million, 80% more than for the comparable period of 2007 (US$340 million).

ZTR's sales target for 2008 is US$700 million. According to the company's commercial plans ZTR's order portfolio for 2008 has already reached 85% of the target. The company's sales department expects to reach the full-year sales target by late July. This has become possible because of wide-ranging improvements to the company's sales activities and a comprehensive marketing strategy.

Igor Kleiner, General Director, ZTR, said: "We are actively working on improving customer service quality. Among our priorities in this sphere are faster responses to customers' requests, quicker preparation of commercial proposals and of solutions responding to customer-requested engineering changes in our products. We are actively promoting services offered by our maintenance center. We are building long term relations with our customers by regular communications with them throughout our equipment's operating life, and by quickly solving customer problems. This comprehensive approach and our focus on the customers' requirements are allowing ZTR to continue expanding its order portfolio."

In recent years, ZTR has created a broad branch network in Russia, opened a representative office in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, optimized operations of ZTR-Enesta, a joint venture with an Austrian partner, and built relations with major contractors. Many international producers of electrical products including Siemens, Alstom, ABB are cooperating with ZTR which is an officially approved supplier of transformer equipment to these companies.

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ZaporozhTransformator OJSC (ZTR) is among the largest Ukrainian manufacturers of transformer equipment, including power transformers, reactors, and transformer monitoring systems. It supplies its products to 83 countries. Since 2001 ZTR has been a part of Energy Standard Group, the largest Ukrainian power engineering holding company, founder and owner of which is businessman Konstantin Grigorishin.

For further information:

Anna Tischenko, +38-050-486-6321 or email: anna.tischenko@ztr.ua

For further information: Anna Tischenko, +38-050-486-6321 or email: anna.tischenko@ztr.ua