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The average annual turnover for sales people in the automotive business is 67%. Also, it’s important to notice that this job is not the one job seekers are interested in. Only about a quarter of them in the industry would also be interested in selling jobs at a dealership. If you’re a dealer, you think, ‘Why would I want to invest in people if they’re going to quit? But they quit because of a lack of training. So it’s a case of the chicken or the egg.” Of the 800 job seekers surveyed, 5 percent said they’d be interested in working in the automotiv...
Audi of America reported an August sales increase of 2.8 percent to 19,811 deliveries. The Q7 and the new Q5 and A5 Sportback helped drive consumer demand. August was the 80th consecutive record sales month for Audi of America. The previous August record was set last year with 19,264 deliveries. Through August, Audi has now sold 141,606 vehicles in the U.S. this year. Deliveries of the new Q5 rose to 4,767 and have now risen 11 percent for the year. Q7 sales rose 35 percent over last August to 3,174 and have risen 20 percent year-to-date. Through August, Audi SUV sales have risen 12...
Revenues at car repairs and auto-parts stores are rising despite the slump in the U.S. auto sales this year. But why is there such a bid difference between these 3, when they are basically bounded to each other? Well, old vehicles are grinding out more miles, and need replacement parts and repairs almost each month. The vehicle fleet is still getting older every single year, in spite of our record sales, So you’ve got a significantly larger population of vehicles that require service and are coming in for service pretty regularly. Car dealers didn’t use to handle so...
Guess who’s gonna sell its electric battery business to GSR Capital? Yes, it’s Nissan. In its statement Nissan revealed that the business which GSR will buy includes battery operations in Japan, England and of course U.S.. The sale covers Nissan's battery manufacturing operations in Smyrna, Tennessee, owned by Nissan North America; in Sunderland, England, owned by Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK; and part of Nissan's Japanese battery development and production engineering operations in Oppama, Atsugi and Zama. Nissan will first take full control of its battery subsidiary...
After we’ve found out that almost each automaker has revealed sale decrease for July 2017, we had been thinking that probably specialists were right calling the car industry doomed, but now that w know that Subaru Corp.’ sales climbed 18%, we’re not so sure anymore Operating income climbed 18 percent for the company’s fiscal first quarter ended June 30. Net income increased 4.4 percent to 82.33 billion yen ($732.9 million) in the period. Revenue advanced 11 percent to 854.77 billion yen ($8.90 billion) in the April-June period, driven by an 11 percent in...
