CJSC Shcherbinka OTIS Elevator was renamed CJSC Meteor Elevator Shcherbinka. The new legal name was registered on March 29, 2023. Thus METEOR Lift completed the rebranding of the companies that were part of the OTIS Russia group. This is stated in the company's message.
Like Shcherbinka OTIS Elevator, Meteor Elevator Shcherbinka will be responsible for the operation of the METEOR Lift winch factory.
Recall that the condition on changing the name of the legal entity, the change of the OTIS trademark, as well as products and services produced under the same brand in the Russian Federation, were part of the acquisition of Russian assets of Otis Worldwide Corporation by S8 Capital holding.
The legal name of OTIS Elevator LLC was changed on December 23, 2022 to Meteor Elevator LLC, which united the elevator plant in St. Petersburg and the regional network of the company's divisions.
JSC "MOS OTIS" on March 17, 2023 was renamed into JSC "Meteor Elevator Moscow", which, as before, is responsible for the company's work in the Moscow region.
Recall that on July 27, 2022, the multidisciplinary holding company S8 Capital acquired all the assets of the American Otis Elevator Company in Russia. The elevator division, which is part of the holding, is a full-cycle company providing services for the design, sale, production, maintenance and modernization of lifting equipment. The company has an extensive service network in Russia for the provision of installation and maintenance of equipment, as well as two production sites – an elevator-building plant in St. Petersburg and a site for the manufacture of winches in Shcherbinka. The company's divisions unite more than 2 thousand employees.
S8 Capital is a diversified Russian holding company combining industrial and high—tech assets from different sectors of the economy. In total, more than 7 thousand specialists work in the structures of the holding.