Friday, September 12, 2008
Volvo aims for network of Big City Supersites
"We will take the initial financial start-up cost worries away from dealers by way of head-up lease assistance." - Kevin Meeks, Volvo UK’s network and business development director
Volvo plans to create 12 ‘super-sites’ for the UK at a cost of more than £30m over the next four to five years.
Costing £2m-£3m each, they will be in locations such as London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.
Kevin Meeks, Volvo UK’s network and business development director, told AM that he wanted more stand-out dealers to handle higher volumes.
The average annual new car sales for Volvo dealers is 270 units, but he wants the super-sites to achieve 500 units per year or more, plus the same again in used cars.
“The super-sites will involve very large sums of money and we want to make it easier for private and public dealer concerns plus family operators to get up and running in major metropolitan areas” he said.
“We will take the initial financial start-up cost worries away from them by way of head-up lease assistance.”
Meeks insisted that Volvo would not reduce its present network of 109 dealers and 15 authorised repairers to get more throughput from each dealership.
DATED: 12.09.08
FEED: AM
Volvo plans to create 12 ‘super-sites’ for the UK at a cost of more than £30m over the next four to five years.
Costing £2m-£3m each, they will be in locations such as London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.
Kevin Meeks, Volvo UK’s network and business development director, told AM that he wanted more stand-out dealers to handle higher volumes.
The average annual new car sales for Volvo dealers is 270 units, but he wants the super-sites to achieve 500 units per year or more, plus the same again in used cars.
“The super-sites will involve very large sums of money and we want to make it easier for private and public dealer concerns plus family operators to get up and running in major metropolitan areas” he said.
“We will take the initial financial start-up cost worries away from them by way of head-up lease assistance.”
Meeks insisted that Volvo would not reduce its present network of 109 dealers and 15 authorised repairers to get more throughput from each dealership.
DATED: 12.09.08
FEED: AM
