Dealerholding Of Mussel rushes full on acquisitions

Posted on 21-10-2014 at 11:59 am by sir_smokalot – 21 Comments”

It goes, let the euphemistically express it, not very good with the Dutch dealers. However, in various doorstartverhalen, there is 1 name that we encounter: From Mussel. The group returns in the current climate, full of gas, and has his tummy is not full.

Earlier this year, the group took the bankrupt Peugeot-branch of Worked, but also the Land Rover division of Furness. In addition, last Monday the acquisition of a Ford dealer Vadah (Roermond-Weert, the netherlands) was announced, a day later, followed 2 Kia dealers in the middle of the country.

On the way to the top

Of Mussel increased in 2013 in the annual list of the largest Dutch dealer holdings of spot 7 to spot 5 (source: DSN). The group turned a volume of roughly 40% of leading Stern (v. Mussel did almost 10,000 cars, Stern 25.000).

In a today published interview with The Financieele Dagblad gives general director Eric Berkhof to have ‘three brands on the list have’, in which a secret is kept.

“Pride comes before a fall’. This saying did, in a certain sense premium in dealer holdings as Koops-Furness, that cup under went in the strong scaling. From the Mussels do not think in the same pitfall trap, and, therefore, will next year stand to create new elements in the group to integrate.

Of blue Mussel is now carrying the brands Volkswagen, Audi, Opel, Peugeot, Land Rover, Ford, Kia, and service-partner of Chevrolet. The three original brands with the 3 still to add brands in a very short time to as many as ten pieces are spread (side, side, make place). The question is whether this is all to deal with, the future will show.

Photo: Golf 7 Variant v. Mussel, autojunk.nl