
Asian brands, EVs dominate 2025 Best Buy Awards
The 2025 Best By Awards, announced by Kelley Blue Book, reflect the rapidly shifting landscape of the automotive market not only in the USA, but also elsewhere.
- Industry News
- 17 April 2025
A full list of the Dealer of the Year winners for Kia for 2019
Parts Dealer of the Year:
A special Gold Award was also extended to Kia Motors Polokwane for excellence in Accessories Sales.
CSI Dealer of the Year:
Service Operations Dealer of the Year:
Fleet and Corporate Sales require a special focus in any dealership and are often accompanied by months of relationship building prior to orders being secured. To acknowledge and reward excellence in this field, two special awards for Fleet Sales Dealer of the Year were made: Silver Award for Kia Motors East Rand, and a Gold Award for Kia Motors Durban South.
Sales Dealer of the Year Award:
Considering all dealerships’ overall achievement in the various fields under consideration, the awards were concluded with the most coveted award of all – the 2020 Kia Motors South Africa Dealer of the Year Award – which was awarded to Kia Motors Durban South.
Located in Amanzimtoti on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, Kia Motors Durban South – under the leadership of Riaz Akoob – received a total of three Gold Awards (Parts, Fleet Sales, Sales) and two Silver Awards (CSI and Service Operations), in combination ranking the highest for the overall Dealer of the Year awards.
Dealerfloor spoke to Kia Motors SA about the importance of the awards, click here to read more.
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