Suzuki Helderberg takes the crown

• 21 Sellers make the Platinum Award checklist
• 6 Dealers acquire the Elite Award
• IPOP Team the leading-advertising vendor team

 

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

The Helderberg team received the coveted award at an function in Durban, which adopted the supplier convention and the start of the significantly-anticipated new Suzuki Baleno to media, sellers and the general public.

The Dealer of the Yr Gala was hosted beneath the title of “Market of Excellence”. Utilizing this concept, dealers and the workforce at Suzuki Auto South Africa talked about means in which they could more strengthen on Suzuki’s high amounts of buyer provider and profits guidance, which assisted make it South Africa’s best-offering passenger auto brand in Might this 12 months.

“When we break an total sales file or hit a large milestone like the one in Might this 12 months, persons often seem at the model initially. But in reality, these achievements are created up of thousands of person interactions between a supplier, a salesperson, a services adviser and a customer.

“That is why we put so a lot energy into our Seller of the Year Awards as it provides recognition to the day-to-day challenging do the job of our 81 sellers in South and Southern Africa,” says Brendon Carpenter, Brand name Marketing Supervisor of Suzuki Auto South Africa.

Prior to asserting the prime award, Suzuki Auto South Africa determined its finest-carrying out sellers and the exceptional persons who outperformed their peers, even at the higher average standards established by all sellers.

Platinum and Elite Dealers

The very first team of dealers to be singled out is Suzuki’s Platinum Award winners. These dealers have a higher average rating across all standards, which includes shopper support, components assist, new car gross sales assist and a supportive finance and insurance team.

“This year, we have the longest ever list of Platinum Award winners. We applaud each individual dealer that has produced the hard work to established and keep these superior amounts of support and purchaser provider,” states Henno Havenga, Manager of Auto Vendor Product sales at Suzuki Automobile.

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 worthy of noting that the dealers on this coveted checklist are unfold throughout South Africa in big towns and scaled-down towns. This once more proves that our significant amount of buyer assistance is not just confined to a select number of sellers or even to huge towns,” suggests Havenga.

Although the Platinum Dealers are a slice previously mentioned the rest, there is a particular group of dealers that have established an even larger typical. Referred to as the “Green Berets” of the Suzuki community, these sellers are the Elite Award winners with the highest general performance in all provider and gross sales types.

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

Best doing folks

Suzuki has a particular team of awards for the folks, who carried out the finest across the several assistance types.

This yr Arno Bester of Suzuki Queenstown was the Best Technician, Grant Saunders of Suzuki Cape City was the Top Sections Supervisor, Wian Greyling of Suzuki Alberton took property the silverware as the Leading Gross sales Manager and Odette Allers of Suzuki Queenstown won the award as the Services Supervisor of the 12 months.

Maximum sales

Right before asserting the Sellers of the Calendar year, SASA recognized the teams and person sellers with the maximum sales.

The major 3 sellers with the maximum gross sales quantity during this period of time were Suzuki Boksburg (3^rd), Suzuki Menlyn (2^nd) and Suzuki Bassonia (1^st), which also retains the file for the optimum gross sales of any seller in a solitary month.

Of the a variety of vendor groups, the IPOP Team – which consists of prime performers these as Suzuki Bassonia and Suzuki West Rand – was the most effective-selling group.

Sellers of the 12 months

Shifting to the overall awards, Suzuki Vehicle South Africa announced the leading accomplishing dealer in just about every group.

Suzuki Vredenburg on the West Coast of the Western Cape was the Rural Vendor of the 12 months.

Suzuki Cape City was recognised as the Tiny Supplier of the Yr.

Suzuki Helderberg was introduced as the Medium group Supplier of the Year.

Suzuki Bramley took dwelling the award as the Big Supplier of the Year.

And eventually, immediately after much apprehension, Suzuki Helderberg in Cape City was referred to as back to stage to consider the prime honours of the in general Suzuki 2021 Dealer of the Yr.

“It is a great honour to be capable to recognise so a lot of dealers in our awards ceremony. We applaud their tricky perform and dedication, especially right after a year of numerous disruptions and uncertainty. We are happy of our vendor community and search ahead to welcoming new groups and individual business owners to our community as we improve further more,” claims Havenga.