BRP completes the acquisition of Great Wall Motor Austria

BRP completes the acquisition of Great Wall Motor Austria

Valcourt, Quebec, Canada, July 27, 2022 – BRP Inc. announced today that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Great Wall Motor Austria GmbH, a subsidiary of Great Wall Motor.  

This leading EV R&D centre based in Kottingbrunn, Austria, specializes in e-drive systems and transmissions.

BRP-Rotax is pleased to welcome these new highly skilled colleagues and looks forward to joining forces with them. Together, they will work on building the BRP EV technology for existing product lines and upcoming product introductions.

CAUTION CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain information included in this release, including, but not limited to, the anticipated benefits associated with the completion of this acquisition, the Company’s business and strategic plans, and other statements that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian and United States securities laws. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by the use of terminology such as "may", "will", "would", "should", "could", "expects", "forecasts", "plans", "intends", "trends", "indications", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "outlook", "predicts", "projects", "likely" or "potential" or the negative or other variations of these words or other comparable words or phrases. Forward looking statements, by their very nature, involve inherent risks and uncertainties and are based on several assumptions, both general and specific. BRP cautions that its assumptions may not materialize and that current economic conditions render such assumptions, although reasonable at the time they were made, subject to greater uncertainty. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results or performance of BRP to be materially different from the outlook or any future results or performance implied by such statements. Further details and descriptions of these and other factors are disclosed in BRP’s annual information form dated March 24, 2022.

Andrea Veitschegger

Public Relations

+43 7246 / 601 2202 andrea.veitschegger@brp.com

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