Suzuki Helderberg takes the crown

• 21 Sellers make the Platinum Award list
• 6 Dealers get the Elite Award
• IPOP Group the top-advertising seller group

 

Suzuki Helderberg in Cape Town is the 2021 Suzuki Vendor of the 12 months.

The Helderberg staff gained the coveted award at an celebration in Durban, which followed the seller convention and the start of the substantially-anticipated new Suzuki Baleno to media, sellers and the public.

The Dealer of the Yr Gala was hosted less than the title of “Market of Excellence”. Using this topic, dealers and the team at Suzuki Auto South Africa reviewed techniques in which they could even more boost on Suzuki’s significant ranges of purchaser service and gross sales guidance, which served make it South Africa’s major-offering passenger vehicle brand in May this year.

“When we break an total revenue record or hit a major milestone like the just one in May well this year, men and women usually glimpse at the brand name initial. But in truth, these achievements are made up of hundreds of individual interactions concerning a dealer, a salesperson, a services adviser and a purchaser.

“That is why we put so much hard work into our Dealer of the 12 months Awards as it gives recognition to the every day hard operate of our 81 dealers in South and Southern Africa,” suggests Brendon Carpenter, Model Internet marketing Supervisor of Suzuki Auto South Africa.

Ahead of saying the best award, Suzuki Auto South Africa discovered its ideal-undertaking sellers and the exceptional men and women who outperformed their peers, even at the high average benchmarks established by all dealers.

Platinum and Elite Sellers

The first group of sellers to be singled out is Suzuki’s Platinum Award winners. These dealers have a higher average score across all requirements, including shopper company, pieces aid, new auto revenue assist and a supportive finance and insurance policies workforce.

“This year, we have the longest at any time record of Platinum Award winners. We applaud every single supplier that has produced the effort to set and keep these higher ranges of support and purchaser support,” claims Henno Havenga, Supervisor of Auto Vendor Income at Suzuki Car.

The subsequent dealers are Platinum Award winners: Suzuki Alberton, Suzuki Bassonia, Suzuki Boksburg, Suzuki Centurion, Suzuki Constantiaberg. Suzuki Durban, Suzuki Durban South, Suzuki Hatfield, Suzuki Kenilworth, Suzuki Klerksdorp, Suzuki Mokopane, Suzuki Nelspruit, Suzuki Northcliff, Suzuki Pinetown, Suzuki Polokwane, Suzuki Port Elizabeth, Suzuki Queenstown, Suzuki Rustenburg, Suzuki Stellenbosch, Suzuki Tygervalley and Suzuki Vredenburg,

“It is worth noting that the dealers on this coveted listing are spread throughout South Africa in large cities and smaller sized cities. This again proves that our large level of consumer provider is not just limited to a find few dealers or even to significant cities,” states Havenga.

While the Platinum Dealers are a slash above the rest, there is a unique team of dealers that have set an even greater typical. Termed the “Green Berets” of the Suzuki network, these dealers are the Elite Award winners with the highest overall performance in all company and gross sales groups.

The list of Elite Dealers contains Suzuki Bramley, Suzuki Bryanston, Suzuki Cape Town, Suzuki Helderberg, Suzuki Kyalami and Suzuki West Rand.

Best doing individuals

Suzuki has a unique team of awards for the persons, who performed the ideal across the several support groups.

This 12 months Arno Bester of Suzuki Queenstown was the Best Technician, Grant Saunders of Suzuki Cape City was the Prime Pieces Manager, Wian Greyling of Suzuki Alberton took dwelling the silverware as the Prime Revenue Manager and Odette Allers of Suzuki Queenstown won the award as the Assistance Supervisor of the Calendar year.

Greatest product sales

Before asserting the Sellers of the Yr, SASA identified the groups and individual sellers with the highest product sales.

The major a few sellers with the highest revenue volume for the duration of this time period ended up Suzuki Boksburg (3^rd), Suzuki Menlyn (2^nd) and Suzuki Bassonia (1^st), which also holds the document for the greatest sales of any supplier in a single month.

Of the several supplier groups, the IPOP Group – which consists of prime performers these types of as Suzuki Bassonia and Suzuki West Rand – was the very best-providing team.

Dealers of the Year

Relocating to the all round awards, Suzuki Car South Africa introduced the top executing vendor in each category.

Suzuki Vredenburg on the West Coast of the Western Cape was the Rural Seller of the Yr.

Suzuki Cape Town was recognised as the Little Supplier of the Year.

Suzuki Helderberg was declared as the Medium category Dealer of the 12 months.

Suzuki Bramley took home the award as the Big Dealer of the 12 months.

And eventually, after a lot apprehension, Suzuki Helderberg in Cape City was termed again to stage to just take the leading honours of the total Suzuki 2021 Vendor of the Year.

“It is a great honour to be ready to recognise so quite a few sellers in our awards ceremony. We applaud their really hard work and dedication, specifically soon after a year of numerous disruptions and uncertainty. We are happy of our vendor network and glance ahead to welcoming new teams and personal entrepreneurs to our community as we develop additional,” states Havenga.