Crisis: less dealers, less maintenance, less cars!

Posted on 12-09-2013 at 16:02 by maru – 36 Comments”

The CBS comes back with alarming figures for the automotive industry.

In the first half of 2013, we saw one after the other to bankruptcy because no one is a new car purchase. A whopping 146 car dealers had to close their doors, a fifth more than the year before. What else should you as the sales by 16.5 percent drops?

The expectations are that this trend is still shore, while remains turn. Economist Theo de Kort, automotive expert at ABN Amro, thinks that this year a further 250 additional bankruptcies reeling: “There are still too many dealerships in the Netherlands, leading to unhealthy low returns is rotated”. BOVAG is the did not agree. The number of showrooms is already limited by mergers, but cars still need to be maintained and repaired.

Car dealerships achieve all three years, no profits. The yield has fallen to 0.4 percent, and this will be according to the analysts, will only continue to weaken. In August, there were even fewer than 30,000 cars sold, the first time this year that the numbers below this magical limit.

The worst affected are the importers of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. In the second quarter of 2013 decreased their turnover by 30 percent. In the car-onderdelenbranche went slightly better with a decline of 1 percent. Only the bedrijfsautobranche turned a positive revenue, and with almost 2 percent. May also be a time after they have been four quarters in succession 10 percent or more are required to provide.

Despite all this bad news, it is notable that after a small dip, however, more vacancies come available in the automotive industry. In the second quarter of 2013, there were approximately 1200 seats, almost as much as last year. What to know the employers that we do not know? Justified optimism or do they feel it is just nice to applicants to reject?