• The "KATOD" company celebrated its 10th-anniversary. Within the framework of celebratory events, a press conference for journalists was organised as well as a seminar-conference including regional partners of the company and a large, noisy holiday including all employees and visitors of the institution, whose anniversary was celebrated.

  • And in August, under the slogan of "We & Petersburg are з1о!", reflecting at once two events – the 300th-anniversary of Petersburg and 10th-anniversary of "KATOD" – the company successfully took part in the annual "Moscow International Motor show", moving a part of Petersburg white nights to the Capital.

  • Experts of "KATOD" company, together with experts of "Eurasia Trance" group of companies, started performance of a complex of starting-up and adjustment works at a starter battery factory in the city of Dzhizak (Uzbekistan), the construction of which was completed a year before by the EXIDE American corporation.
  • At the end of 2003, at a battery factory in the city of Dzhizak (Uzbekistan), manufacture of starter batteries under the KATOD trademark was started. The first products of the factory in Dzhizak were assembled with accessories from a South-Korea manufacturer. Batteries by KATOD added to the assortment of the company in the most popular mass segment of inexpensive batteries.