BMW Australia has named and honoured its top-performing dealerships of 2020 in its annual Supplier of the Yr (DOTY) awards with the highest prize going to Hornsby BMW (Wahroonga, NSW).
Like many different manufacturers, BMW Australia opted to host the 2020 awards digitally in respect to the still-mandatory social distancing laws and the one lately opened state borders.
BMW’s DOTY awards embody 4 fundamental classes on high of the general best-performer, acknowledging each the winner and runner-up throughout all 4 with the winners decided by gross sales, customer support and dedication to the BMW Group.
Not solely did Hornsby BMW take the highest total honours, it additionally received Metropolitan 2 Supplier of the Yr class forward of Motorline BMW (Daisy Hill, QLD).
BMW Sydney (NSW) in the meantime was named Main Metro Supplier of the Yr forward of Brisbane BMW (QLD) whereas Blacklocks Status in Lavington (NSW) beat Townsville BMW (QLD) to safe Rural Supplier of the Yr.
The Provincial Supplier of the Yr award went to Worthington BMW (Somersby, NSW) forward of Shoreline BMW (Currimundi, QLD).
Based on BMW Group Australia CEO Wolfgang Buechel, the awards are an essential event in acknowledging the efforts of the whole community, particularly within the wake of such difficult buying and selling situations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The BMW and Mini seller community demonstrated spectacular dedication to excellence throughout each side of their enterprise over the previous 12 months,” he mentioned.
“This dedication was mirrored in gross sales success however simply as importantly within the areas of professionalism, management and administration practices with a customer-driven mindset.”
A part of the broader group awards are the Mini Excellence awards that are damaged down into 4 completely different ‘teams’ which reference the sellers’ operation dimension and quantity with Teams One and Two being the larger metro operations whereas three and 4 are sometimes extra rural.
Queensland dealerships dominated the roost in 2020 with Brisbane Mini Storage, Motorline Mini Storage, Shoreline Mini Storage and Townsville Mini Storage taking house high honours in Teams One, Two, Three and 4 respectively.
Gross sales of each BMW and Mini are down 7.8 (3642) and 4.3 (518) per cent respectively up to now this 12 months ending February in comparison with the 3950 and 541 items they shifted over the identical interval final 12 months.
