スペインの自動車販売会社は、2007年からの経済不況による販売利益率の減少と在庫の増加で苦境に立たされる
Nubarrones en los concesionarios
La atomización y el elevado ‘stock’ lastran la rentabilidad de la distribución de vehículos
Desde que estalló la crisis se han perdido 30.000 empleos
Ginés Donaire 1 FEB 2013 - 13:49 CET
Clouds on dealers
The atomization and high 'stock' hinder the profitability of vehicle distribution
Since the outbreak of the crisis have lost 30,000 jobs
Donaire Ginés 1 FEB 2013 - 13:49 CET
Vehicles increasingly spend more time at the dealers, and stocks do not stop growing. It is, without doubt, the most worrisome indicator of the deep crisis being experienced by the distribution sector of the automobile, which has seen them fall to half its financial performance since 2007.
Two researchers from the University of Jaen (UJA) conducted a study that analyzed the current competitive position of Spanish dealers of cars and SUVs. Specifically, José Moyano Fuentes, Professor of Management, and the engineer José Pedro Martinez Jury examined the internal management, efficiency and relationships with customers and manufacturers of a sample of 247 dealers of cars and 4 × 4 of 52 Spanish provinces.
The official dealer industry directly employs 150,000 people and is made primarily by SMEs. However, in recent years, is suffering a loss of competitiveness motivated as much by economic crisis and by the stringent conditions imposed distribution automakers. The crisis has caused the destruction of around 30,000 jobs, due mainly to stagnation in household consumption.
The sector includes companies engaged in the sale and repair of motor vehicles and has four subgroups of activity. The most important of them is dedicated to the maintenance and repair of vehicles, representing 64.4% of the companies, followed by dedicated vehicle sales, with 23.7%.
Over half of the centers are integrated into larger groups
The crisis is changing customer behavior. Thus, for example, used vehicles, although not escape the downward trend, have a less negative than that experienced by new vehicles. Specifically, the current gap of two vehicles is used for each new. This value is still far from other European countries such as Britain, with 3.2, and France, with 2.7. However, new vehicle sales account for 60% of revenue, compared with 14% of the equipment.
The rate of creation of new dealerships has slowed sharply in recent years, and that only 3% of the establishments was established after 2004. The vast majority of dealers are family businesses organized as corporations. 66% of the analyzed centers have fewer than 50 employees, and 12% have less than 10 employees. It also highlights the high stability of the templates, as 87% of employees are fixed.
At the same time, there is a concentration of ownership, as more than half of the dealers are integrated into larger groups that sell different brands. "There has been some fragmentation in terms of its scale, because the dealers have a very small number of outlets located within their immediate local environment," says Prof. José Moyano, who is also a professor at the Polytechnic School of Linares.
Grantees show a pessimistic view on the evolution of sales of new vehicles in the future, as more than half of respondents think these fall in the next three years and that the average decrease will be 25% of what currently charged. The vision is more positive about the future evolution of sales of used vehicles, but the expected increase is less than 10%.
Currently sold two cars used by each new
The dealers who sell vehicles come mostly from own stock exposure or point of sale. In a quarter of cases are from the manufacturer's stock, and a smaller percentage (15%) of delayed delivery by the manufacturer. The average delivery of new vehicles to customers is only 29 days.
As for the efficiency of the sales process, the report of the UJA teachers warned that "the situation is worrying vehicle inventories", which directly affects the profitability and viability of these companies. Thus, new cars dealers keep their exhibits an average of 79 days, a period that is very high even higher in the stock of cars for sale (97 days).
Revenues of the dealers began to collapse after 2007, the year from which also halved financial profitability. "This highlights the really dramatic consequences for licensees of the economic crisis, which has led to such notable descents of almost graze benefits limits the survival of these companies," concludes the study by researchers Jaén. It is noted, finally, that these companies are not in accordance with the sales margins and revenue goals that set the marks, underlining the stiffness distribution contracts to address exceptional situations.
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