MAN Automotive’s
Pinetown Assembly & Own Retail expands to offer
Additional services
Our MAN Retail operations will open a wholly
owned operation in Port Elizabeth. One of SA’s largest cities, Port Elizabeth
has always been an important location on the Garden Route to offer support to
our clients. Previously operated as a Private Capital location, MAN decided
that it was the right time to re-in force its footprint by setting up this
wholly owned location.
Adding to this, MAN Automotive has seen an
significant increase in sales and market share and as a consequence to this announced
plans which enable the expansion of assembly operations by approximately 50%
compared to 2016.
As from 01st April 2018,
the Assembly Plant will cater for end-of-line PDI checks (Pre-Delivery
inspection), which are normally done at the various dealer points around the
country. By definition this means that MAN as an automotive supplier of
commercial vehicles is able to offer ready-to-go solutions, from a centralised
point – enabling improved consistency in quality and uniformity of standards.
Having such a central point also enables the
MAN customer to make collections of their transport solutions from the Assembly
Plant, in alignment with MAN globally. Similar to how the Brand operates
globally. MAN’s ProfiDrive driver training is then provided as a standard
service to such collecting customers.
An enabler to this move is the use of the MAN
Branch facility adjacent to the Pinetown Plant. Supporting the network
optimisation strategy which is taking place simultaneously, the normal MAN
Retail operations will stop from this site, effective the 1st of
April, 2018. We are confident that the remaining six dealers within KwaZulu-Natal
will continue to offer customers with a variety of options to support their
operations without any compromise to service levels.
We are absolutely sure that our customers
will welcome these exciting developments - another milestone in our almost 60
year uninterrupted history in Pinetown.
