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- Industry News
- 8 August 2025
Mitsubishi Motors South Africa has awarded dealers and select dealership staff for strong performances across a variety of dealership roles.
The overall Dealer of the Year award and regular winner, Mitsubishi Motors East London, has again clinched this prestigious title.
The Mitsubishi Dealer of the Year awards recognise excellence across the brand’s dealerships and follow a comprehensive, ongoing evaluation process that measures a wide range of aspects of dealer performance.
These include factors such as sales volumes, the meeting of sales targets, parts sales, after-sales business excellence and customer satisfaction.
In the sales vs retail sales category, Mitsubishi Motors The Glen, Mitsubishi Motors Mobeni and Mitsubishi Motors Empangeni were the best performers.
Mitsubishi Motors East Rand, Mitsubishi Motors East London and Mitsubishi Motors George sold the most retail units across the three dealer categories.
The best performing Fleet sales dealers across the three categories were Mitsubishi Motors Umhlanga, Mitsubishi Motors Mobeni and Mitsubishi Motors Middelburg.
All these factors are considered for the overall Dealer of the Year award, which went to Mitsubishi Motors East London.
The hotly contested sales executive award in the large dealer category was clinched by Megan Moonsamy from Mitsubishi Motors Umhlanga. Sharing the honours in the medium dealer category were Sipho Makuliwe from Mitsubishi Motors East London and James Motlanthe from Mitsubishi Motors Hatfield. The award is of particular significance for Motlanthe who enters retirement and ends a stellar career with this prestigious award. MG Laubscher from Mitsubishi Motors George walked away with the honours in the small dealer category.
Service Advisors Gerard Peterson and Jan Lottering from Mitsubishi Motors Menlyn and Natasha Slater from Mitsubishi Motors Kimberley were honoured with Diamond Service Awards for National and International CSI.
Parts managers Grant Collinicos from Mitsubishi Motors Paarden Eiland, Lindiwe Mokoena from Mitsubishi Motors Bedfordview and Charmaine Werner from Mitsubishi Motors George received recognition for their contribution to keeping customers’ vehicles on the road.
The Service Managers from Mitsubishi Motors Menlyn, Mitsubishi Motors Bedfordview and Mitsubishi Motors Pietermaritzburg walked away with the laurels in this category.
Dealer of the Year awards:
C-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors George.
B-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors East London.
A-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors East Rand.
C-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors Empangeni.
B-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors Mobeni.
A-sized dealers - Mitsubishi Motors The Glen.
C-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors George – Charmaine Werner.
B-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors Bedfordview – Lindiwe Mokoena.
A-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors Paarden Eiland – Grant Collinicos.
C-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors PMB – Terrence Moodley.
B-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors Bedfordview – Victor Thom.
A-sized dealers – Mitsubishi Motors Menlyn – Kallie Landsberg.
Natasha Slater – Mitsubishi Motors Kimberley.
Jan Lottering – Mitsubishi Motors Menlyn.
Gerard Peterson – Mitsubishi Motors Menlyn
Megan Moonsamy – Mitsubishi Motors Umhlanga.
Sipho Makuliwe – Mitsubishi Motors East London.
James Motlanthe – Mitsubishi Motors Hatfield.
MG Laubscher – Mitsubishi Motors George.
Mitsubishi Mozambique.
Mitsubishi Zambia.
Mitsubishi Malawi.
Mitsubishi Motors East London.
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