Despite a grueling year for vehicle sales worldwide, dealers of Volkswagen are quick to assert that their organization is in a class of its own.
Volkswagen of America, Inc., has proudly announced that Volkswagen dealer profitability has outstandingly produced an average return of sales worth 2.45 percent, surpassing that of the 2006 industry average of 1.5 percent.
Currently, Volkswagen dealership is operating in two levels: Volkswagen-exclusive dealers that only handle Volkswagen units, and Volkswagen dealers who have the Volkswagen models in its fleet of various brands. Combining these two groups resulted to a remarkable average of 2.5 percent profitability as of June 2007. Said updated statistics have exceeded the sales records last December 2006, wherein the Volkswagen dealers only garnered a 1.5 percent in profit percentages, while Volkswagen-exclusive dealers vied for 1.44 percent.
Matthias Seidl, Chief Operating Officer of Volkswagen of America noted: “Dealer profitability is at the core of our dealer network strategy. It is important because it benefits the customer — profitable dealers are better able to hire and retain great sales and service personnel and ensure high customer satisfaction.”
Seidl also divulged plans in sustaining and further nurturing this positive development in dealer profitability. One includes Volkswagen’s strategy to maintain about 600 dealers in the upcoming years. The other pertains to what the company is working on at the moment, which is to add more Volkswagen-exclusive dealerships in its roster. With all these, Volkswagen is firm in its declaration that said dealerships will be maintaining its main goal of performance in terms of sales growth and customer satisfaction.
Seidl concluded the press release with a meaningful message of higher productivity rates to come: “We have a quite a way to go before we achieve a return on sales of 2.5 percent on the average across all dealers, but early indications are that our strategy is starting to pay off.”
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Despite a grueling year for vehicle sales worldwide, dealers of Volkswagen are quick to assert that their organization is in a class of its own.
Volkswagen of America, Inc., has proudly announced that Volkswagen dealer profitability has outstandingly produced an average return of sales worth 2.45 percent, surpassing that of the 2006 industry average of 1.5 percent.
Currently, Volkswagen dealership is operating in two levels: Volkswagen-exclusive dealers that only handle Volkswagen units, and Volkswagen dealers who have the Volkswagen models in its fleet of various brands. Combining these two groups resulted to a remarkable average of 2.5 percent profitability as of June 2007. Said updated statistics have exceeded the sales records last December 2006, wherein the Volkswagen dealers only garnered a 1.5 percent in profit percentages, while Volkswagen-exclusive dealers vied for 1.44 percent.
Matthias Seidl, Chief Operating Officer of Volkswagen of America noted: “Dealer profitability is at the core of our dealer network strategy. It is important because it benefits the customer — profitable dealers are better able to hire and retain great sales and service personnel and ensure high customer satisfaction.”
Seidl also divulged plans in sustaining and further nurturing this positive development in dealer profitability. One includes Volkswagen’s strategy to maintain about 600 dealers in the upcoming years. The other pertains to what the company is working on at the moment, which is to add more Volkswagen-exclusive dealerships in its roster. With all these, Volkswagen is firm in its declaration that said dealerships will be maintaining its main goal of performance in terms of sales growth and customer satisfaction.
Seidl concluded the press release with a meaningful message of higher productivity rates to come: “We have a quite a way to go before we achieve a return on sales of 2.5 percent on the average across all dealers, but early indications are that our strategy is starting to pay off.”
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