Click the thumbs up >IVendi has published a new white paper that is designed to help dealers complete a “digital transformation” that will make their businesses fit for the post-pandemic used car, van and motorcycle markets.
The document, Connected Retailing: Addressing the Challenges of Digital Transformation, is available to download for free from iVendi’s website and covers a wide range of emerging trends and their potential technological solutions.
James Tew, CEO at iVendi, said: “With the end of the pandemic now hopefully in sight, we’ve been spending considerable time examining how it has changed our understanding of the ways in which technology can best be used by dealers.
Click the thumbs up >Automotive ecommerce specialist iVendi has helped UK car retailers to facilitate £1.3 billion in vehicle sales in the past 12 months – up £200m despite the impact of COVID-19.
A record number of used vehicle sales have passed through iVendi’s online platform in the pandemic year, representing actual sales of more than 120,000 cars, vans and motorcycles, the business said.
Chief executive, James Tew, said that the result showed the extent to which technology has sustained dealers through the crisis.
“Car retailers have spent more than half of the last year being able to only sell online and there is widespread recognition that the market has markedly fallen but dealers using our technology have been able to buck that trend,” said Tew.
Stefano Mallia is the president of the Employers’ Group in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).
Climate neutrality and digital leadership will not be an easy task for Europe. The transformative agenda of the European Green Deal is as demanding as it is compelling. Some CEOs perceive it as a Herculean task.
We are ready to take up the challenge and fully support the 55% reduction target by 2030, endorsed by the European Council last week. This however must be coupled with an enabling policy framework to ensure competitiveness and industrial transformation.
It is clear that decarbonising the industry will load energy intensive companies (such as steel, cement and the chemical sectors) with high-energy costs while simultaneously imposing a massive structural change on the industrial, transport and energy sectors, risking an economic disadvantage in a competitive global market.