A record turnout of dealers has been confirmed for the Australian Automotive Dealers Association (AADA) Convention and Expo with key themes also having great significance for the New Zealand market as the industry scopes its future.
The annual expo is taking place at the International Convention Centre in Sydney’s Darling Harbour and offers two days of dealer and industry discussion, as well as an expo featuring dealer services and products from floorpan products to power washers.
This year’s theme is ’the road ahead’, and AADA executive director James Voortman says while ‘change’ is an often quoted theme, it feels like now is really the time it is is happening in the auto retail trade.
“It is a message we keep hearing, that the auto industry is on the edge of change,” Voortman said in his opening speech. “I really feel we are living that change.”
He broke those change areas up into three areas – electrification, intensification of competition and regulation.
“If you scratch beneath the surface there a number of trends we need to take not off as an industry as they are going to have consequences,” Voortman said.
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