Destia Oy and Ramirent Finland Oy have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) whereby Destia outsources its modules and some light machinery as well as related operations to Ramirent and signs a five-year rental agreement with Ramirent.The agreement is to be finalised in the first quarter of 2011.

Destia Oy is a Finnish infrastructure and construction service company building, maintaining and designing traffic routes, industrial and traffic environments, but also complete living environments. Destia’s customers include organisations of public administration, industrial companies and businesses as well as municipalities and cities. Destia has a strong market position in services related to traffic lane maintenance.

”The co-operation with Ramirent helps us focus on our core business and improves our competitiveness. The solution that Ramirent provides us with is in line with what we value including safety, quality and flexibility,” says Destia’s Procurement Director Petri Roimela.

”We are very pleased to deepen our co-operation with Destia and further expand the range of equipment and services we are delivering to Destia,” says Kari Aulasmaa, Managing Director, Ramirent Finland. “A deeper co-operation with Destia contributes also to developing our services further as well as strengthening Ramirent’s position in certain customer sectors in which we would like to grow our presence.”

“The agreement fits very well with our Group strategy andwe are pleased to see thatincreasingly more companies discover the benefits of outsourcing own fleet in favour of renting,” says Magnus Rosén, CEO, Ramirent Group. ”Letting customers outsource their own machinery to us releases resources to be used for their core processes, which is an important part of our strategy in simplifying business for our customers.”

Ramirent is the leading construction machinery rental company in Finland with annual sales of EUR 134 million in 2009 and operating nationwide through 83 outlets and 612 employees.

For further information

Kari Aulasmaa, Managing Director, Ramirent Finland, phone: +358 20 750 2822,
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Ramirent is a leading equipment rental group delivering Dynamic Rental Solutions™ that simplify business. We serve a broad range of customers, including construction and process industries, shipyards, the public sector and households. In 2009, Group net sales totalled EUR 503 million. The Group has some 3,000 employees at some 375 permanent outlets in thirteen countries. Ramirent is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.

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