Saab's Financial Conference 2025: Primed for Future Expansion
Saab Announces Strategy for Future Growth and Sustainability
Saab, a leading defense and security company, is gearing up for sustained growth and increased defense order volumes through 2025 and beyond. The company, headquartered in Sweden, specializes in designing, manufacturing, and maintaining advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors, and underwater systems.
Saab's strategic approach for future growth and ensuring customer commitments centers on capacity expansion, digital transformation, and accelerating future capabilities. The company is investing around $500 million to expand its production capacity, aiming to meet increasing demand driven by geopolitical tensions and rising global defense budgets.
In terms of digital transformation, Saab is leveraging advanced technologies and innovation to improve operational efficiency and develop next-generation defense systems that align with evolving customer needs. The focus is on software-driven, data-centric, and AI-technology, with a goal to reduce lead times and time-to-market in key areas such as air and naval autonomy, AI-based command and control systems, distributed sensors, and advanced weapons.
Saab is also committed to scaling up its operations and accelerating the development of future capabilities. The company is focusing on industrialisation, automation, market expansion, and digital transformation. The mission is to help nations keep their people and society safe, while also committing to creating a safer and more sustainable world.
Micael Johansson, the President and CEO of Saab, emphasized the company's customer commitments by focusing on timely delivery, product quality, and aligning strategic investments to meet international defense demands fuelled by rising defense spending, particularly across Europe and NATO countries.
On May 27, 2025, Saab is hosting a Capital Markets Day in Karlskoga, Sweden, where more details about the company's strategy will be shared. The event is being live-streamed at www.saab.com/cmd. For Investor Relations and Media Relations queries, Merton Kaplan and Mattias Rådström are the contacts at Saab respectively.
A file titled "Saab's Capital Markets Day 2025 - Well-positioned for future growth" is available for download, providing further insights into Saab's strategic approach. Additionally, a file showing a Saab Mobile Short-Range Air Defence (MSHORAD) missile firing unit is also available for download.
Saab is a domestic defense capability of several nations and is committed to staying at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring it remains a trusted partner in the defense and security sector.
[1] Saab's Press Release, "Saab Announces Strategy for Future Growth and Sustainability", issued by Saab and distributed by Cision PR Newswire. [2] For more information, visit www.saab.com/cmd. [3] Contacts for Investor Relations and Media Relations respectively at Saab are Merton Kaplan and Mattias Rådström. [4] The expansion aims to meet increasing demand driven by geopolitical tensions and rising global defense budgets.
- Saab's strategic direction includes digital transformation, focusing on the implementation of software-driven, data-centric, and AI-technology to revolutionize operational efficiency and create next-generation defense systems that align with evolving security needs.
- Committed to staying at the forefront of technological advancements, Saab has announced an investment of around $500 million to expand its production capacity, ensuring its readiness to meet the rising demand for defense systems fueled by global security concerns and increased defense budgets.
