Honda Hatfield drives away with top prize
- Dealer News
- 20 September 2024
Jaguar Land Rover South Africa honoured its top performing retailers at its annual Retailer of the Year ceremony recently.
The Lowveld Motors Group made a big splash at the recent Volkswagen Grand Prix Awards.
The motor industry is one of the most adaptive businesses with a constantly changing environment and customer needs that must constantly be met by dealers.
Being awarded the title as Top Sales Executive of the Year for 2021 by Hyundai came as a surprise to Sandra Meyer from Hyundai Centurion at the manufacturer’s recent Dealer Conference.
While still in school, he sold his first Toyota Hilux. No wonder that GD Kotze has been the Dealer Principal at Oranje Toyota in Bothaville for the past 12 years, in the heart of the country’s maize triangle. In this region, a Hilux and farming go hand in hand.
This Dealer of the Year Award belongs to all our customers, our staff and Renault South Africa, says Dean Marais, Dealer Principal at Renault Graaff-Reinet, which was just crowned the best dealership in the micro category for 2021 by the manufacturer.
Volkswagen recognised dealership excellence at its annual Grand Prix Awards recently held at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Gauteng.
For two consecutive years Alpine Renault in Hillcrest, a suburban area west of Pinetown and Durban, won the dealer of the Year Award in the medium size category from the French manufacturer. The previous award was achieved in the small category, but the dealership has since moved up a notch in its size classification.
Like the roar of a lion, the 54-year family history of Sentra Motors rumbles across the country from a humble beginning in the late sixties in Welkom with two state-of-the-art branches in Bloemfontein and Umhlanga today, still run by the same family.
It was a dream come true for Nico Pretorius of Lichtenburg Toyota, when the dealership received the Toyota President’s Award for Dealer of the Year in the category for small dealerships.
The Human Auto Group outclassed all other Ford Dealership Groups in South Africa for the second consecutive year and was rated as the Best Ford Dealer Group by Ford South Africa for 2021.
The truck business, especially when selling a brand like FAW, is doing great in a vehicle market that is sometimes difficult to navigate owing to the continued stock shortages and the low economic growth rate in the country.
Stellantis is continuing its dealer expansion drive to make its brands more accessible to South African consumers.
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