Suzuki Helderberg takes the crown

• 21 Dealers make the Platinum Award list
• 6 Sellers acquire the Elite Award
• IPOP Group the major-providing supplier team

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

The Helderberg staff gained the coveted award at an celebration in Durban, which followed the vendor meeting and the launch of the considerably-anticipated new Suzuki Baleno to media, dealers and the public.

The Supplier of the Year Gala was hosted beneath the title of “Market of Excellence”. Applying this theme, dealers and the workforce at Suzuki Auto South Africa reviewed methods in which they could additional strengthen on Suzuki’s high ranges of consumer provider and profits assistance, which served make it South Africa’s top-promoting passenger motor vehicle brand name in May perhaps this calendar year.

“When we crack an over-all revenue report or strike a big milestone like the one particular in May perhaps this year, people today normally look at the model initial. But in fact, these achievements are made up of hundreds of personal interactions among a dealer, a salesperson, a assistance adviser and a buyer.

“That is why we put so much effort into our Vendor of the Year Awards as it offers recognition to the day-to-day tricky operate of our 81 sellers in South and Southern Africa,” says Brendon Carpenter, Brand Internet marketing Manager of Suzuki Vehicle South Africa.

Prior to asserting the top rated award, Suzuki Auto South Africa determined its ideal-doing dealers and the remarkable people today who outperformed their peers, even at the high regular specifications established by all dealers.

Platinum and Elite Dealers

The very first team of dealers to be singled out is Suzuki’s Platinum Award winners. These dealers have a high average rating across all standards, like shopper service, sections guidance, new vehicle sales assistance and a supportive finance and insurance plan staff.

“This yr, we have the longest at any time record of Platinum Award winners. We applaud each and every vendor that has manufactured the hard work to set and manage these significant ranges of help and shopper service,” claims Henno Havenga, Manager of Automobile Supplier Product sales at Suzuki Auto.

The following sellers 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 list are spread across South Africa in large cities and more compact cities. This again proves that our higher amount of purchaser company is not just constrained to a pick couple of sellers or even to big towns,” suggests Havenga.

Even though the Platinum Sellers are a minimize over the relaxation, there is a distinctive group of sellers that have set an even better common. Termed the “Green Berets” of the Suzuki community, these sellers are the Elite Award winners with the best effectiveness in all provider and product sales groups.

The list of Elite Sellers consists of Suzuki Bramley, Suzuki Bryanston, Suzuki Cape City, Suzuki Helderberg, Suzuki Kyalami and Suzuki West Rand.

Top undertaking persons

Suzuki has a distinctive team of awards for the folks, who executed the ideal across the a variety of services groups.

This 12 months Arno Bester of Suzuki Queenstown was the Best Technician, Grant Saunders of Suzuki Cape City was the Best Elements Supervisor, Wian Greyling of Suzuki Alberton took household the silverware as the Prime Income Manager and Odette Allers of Suzuki Queenstown received the award as the Provider Manager of the Yr.

Best product sales

Before announcing the Sellers of the Year, SASA recognized the groups and specific dealers with the maximum sales.

The top 3 sellers with the highest product sales volume during this time period had been Suzuki Boksburg (3^rd), Suzuki Menlyn (2^nd) and Suzuki Bassonia (1^st), which also retains the document for the highest revenue of any vendor in a solitary month.

Of the numerous supplier groups, the IPOP Team – which involves best performers these types of as Suzuki Bassonia and Suzuki West Rand – was the best-advertising team.

Sellers of the 12 months

Moving to the all round awards, Suzuki Car South Africa introduced the best performing seller in every classification.

Suzuki Vredenburg on the West Coastline of the Western Cape was the Rural Vendor of the Calendar year.

Suzuki Cape Town was recognised as the Little Supplier of the 12 months.

Suzuki Helderberg was announced as the Medium category Vendor of the Year.

Suzuki Bramley took household the award as the Big Seller of the 12 months.

And lastly, after a lot apprehension, Suzuki Helderberg in Cape Town was known as back to phase to just take the top rated honours of the over-all Suzuki 2021 Vendor of the Yr.

“It is a wonderful honour to be in a position to recognise so many sellers in our awards ceremony. We applaud their difficult do the job and dedication, in particular after a calendar year of a lot of disruptions and uncertainty. We are very pleased of our vendor network and search forward to welcoming new teams and specific business owners to our network as we mature more,” suggests Havenga.