Sep 08, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. VIDA has acquired a minority stake in Swedish Wood marketing business Uni4 Marketing, company said in a statement received by Lesprom Network. The other shareholders in the company are SCA Timber, Holmen Timber, Södra Timber and Martinsons Trä. “Our target by buying a share in Uni4 Marketing is to get access to a very cost efficient sales organization for the growing markets in Middle East and North Africa,” says Måns Johansson, MD VIDA Wood AB. “The strengthening of the ownership structure by VIDA makes it possible to continue to improve the already successful work to create a cost-efficient sales channel what concerns logistics, sales organization in markets that historically have been known as high cost markets,” says Anders Ek, Chairman Uni4 Marketing and marketing director SCA Timber and welcome VIDA as shareholders in the company. Uni4 Marketing will achieve a turnover of about 550.000 cubic metres sawn timber or Euro 110.000 during 2010 in sales to the markets in Middle East and North Africa.