Anhui Ankai Automobile Co., Ltd. is a Chinese automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Hefei, Anhui, which specialises in the production of buses and coaches.[2] Ankai's products include urban buses, regular coaches, sleeping berth coaches, bus and coach chassis and automotive components. Ankai also offers related repair and maintenance services. The company has three principal subsidiaries and distributes its products worldwide.
The name "Ankai" is the abbreviation of Anhui-Kässbohrer, marking the cooperation between Hefei Feihe Automobile Factory and Kässbohrer from 1993.
As of 9 November 2016, Ankai was a constituent of SZSE 1000 Index (as well as sub-index SZSE 700 Index) but not in SZSE Component Index, making the company was ranked between the 501st to 1,000th by free float adjusted market capitalization.
History
Anhui Ankai Automobile Co., Ltd was founded on July 22, 1997, and was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, China's second largest stock exchange, three days later. A license agreement for the construction of buses with a self-supporting body was signed with the Setra bus brand, which now belongs to the Daimler subsidiary EvoBus. This made Ankai the first company in Asia to produce this type of body, also known as a monocoque. Just one year later, in November 1998, the 500th bus was manufactured.[3]