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In what we carry of the month of November the registrations grew 41,1%

Dealers will brush the 'breakeven' this year

Editorial Interempresas22/11/2013

The president of the National Association of Sellers of Vehicles to Engine (Ganvam), Juan Antonio Sánchez Torres, that represents to 4.600 dealers/official services and 3.000 compraventas, affirmed today that the small and medium enterprises of the distribution and repair of vehicles will brush already to finals of this year the 'breakeven' when it does hardly twelve months, six of each ten was in situation of losses.

Juan Antonio Sánchez Torres, president of Ganvam.

Sánchez Torres, that chaired today a day organised by Ganvam on the challenges of the sale and posventa in the new surroundings post-crisis, ensured that after six years of long crisis, the SMEs of the sale and posventa are prepared in the grill of exit to take positions in what the curve of the economy begin to trace back predictably from the second or third quarter of the year 2014.

The president of the association ensured that to the equal that the sector automotive sector was of the first in taking measures in front of the crisis with hard adjust in his volume of companies and staff, also will be of the first in warning the symptoms of the recovery. In fact, in what we carry of the month of November the registrations grew 41,1%, with some increases that did not remember from did practically three years.

Now well, Sánchez Torres did a call to the prudence and remembered that from the explosion of the crisis in 2007 have lost more than 3.500 SMEs and near of 50.000 employments in this sector, by what the companies of the distribution that have achieved capear the storm are weakened financially but operativamente better prepared to face the recovery from the next año.el president of Ganvam, that forms part of the Managerial Board of the CEOE, required that although they are resolving a lot of appearances of the essential –macroeconomy to guarantee the growth in the short term- recognised that his translation in “the street” is not immediate, but it exists a true decalaje until arriving to the real economy of those families ailed of fault of income and financials.

Plans of incentives: effective, timely and grateful

Sánchez Torres recognised the essential paper, effective and timely of the successive plans of helps in this takeoff, in reference to the distinct editions of the PIVE and PIMA Air, that have prevented the absolute collapse of the market. Without incentives to the purchase, the sales had closed the past year in some 600.000 units and in hardly 670.000 in this year 2013. The forecasts for the present exercise aim to a volume of registrations around the 720.000.

In opinion of Ganvam, these figures evidencian the need to articulate a plan of incentives with indefinite character until the exit of the crisis was a reality and the first symptoms of recovery begin to move to the consumption of the families; máxime if it takes into account the strategic character of the sector automotive sector on the growth of the GDP and the strong bet of the industry of the manufacture by our country.

The president of Ganvam took advantage of also this day to remember that the incentives of these plans of stimulus are not non-recoverable helps to the sector but direct helps to the buyer of the vehicle with a clear return since by each euro invested recover more than two via VAT, Imposed of Registration (in his case) and Tax of Hydrocarbons.

The vehicle used pushes the market

Likewise, one of the segments that is contributing positively to the accounts of results of the distribution is the market of secondhand vehicles that in these last years have converted , by his good relation guarantee/price, in a real solution of mobility for a lot of Spaniards, until the point that already they sell 2,2 used by each one new.

However, this affirmation has also his small letter since to the heat of the crisis has proliferated the peddling by part of pseudoprofesionales that pass off as particular, an illicit activity that embezzles more than 300 million annual euros to the sector. Likewise, 62% of the operations that realizar in the market of occasion are between individuals, with vehicles of low price and in some conditions that are far from the standards of quality, guarantee and maintenance that offer lconcesionarios and compraventas.

Like this, the sales of tourisms of occasion grew 7,5% until October, promoted by the shopping of individuals that bend increasingly by vehicles mileuristas easily payable to the explained. For this year it expects that the market of occasion close with an increase of 6%, surpassing like this the 1,6 million units.

The age of the park happens bill to the workshops

Likewise, the activity reparadora also is suffering the effects of the fall of sales and the aging of the park by a double road. On the one hand, the disaster of the market has caused that in the last six years have left to go in to the park more than three million vehicles, what supposes less critical mass of vehicles to repair.

On the other hand, the greater antiquity of the vehicles rodantes -propiciado by the delay of the change of vehicle and the peak of the trucks used more veteran- has reduced in 20% the frequency of steps by the workshop, especially for maintenances and operations of sheet, since, on the contrary of what thinks , a vehicle of more years repairs less since they are used to to be ensured with franchise, by what the repairs limit to the indispensable. In the last three years the activity reparadora contracted around 21%.

Likewise, to this reality of the market it is necessary to add him an additional problem as it is the disloyal competition of illegal workshops that concentrate already 20% of the operations that realizar in Spain. In the actuality, this practice supposes some losses of 1.000 million euros for the sector reparador legally established.

For the president of Ganvam, “is necessary to articulate an integral plan for the sector of automotive sector that, on the one hand, follow promoting the sales of trucks and rejuvenating the park, but also that they finish with lacras so worrisome like the peddling or the illegal workshops. These represent a clear focus of economy submerged in addition to a disloyal competition for all the sector that fulfils legally with his obligations tributarias. The global review of the taxation of the car oriented to tax more the use and no the purchase, on line with the European guidelines, is also another pending subject”.