PARIS — Ford’s broker community in Europe remains to be “oversized” and must crop in coming years, a govern corporate government mentioned.
“Overall our dealer network is oversized, we have to restructure,” Martin Sander, head of Ford’s passengers vehicles trade in Europe, instructed the Car Information Europe Congress right here on Wednesday.
Ford is exiting marketplace sections similar to miniature and compact vehicles in Europe because it specializes in SUVs and crossovers that experience upper benefit margins, decreasing its want for a massive dealership community that used to be eager as much as offer with quantity gross sales.
“Our ideal network is smaller than today but still large enough to serve our customers everywhere in Europe,” Sander mentioned. Some markets have already got the appropriate community in park to promote smaller volumes, pace others “still have work to do,” he mentioned.
“We have discussed this with the dealers. They know what is coming,” Sanders mentioned.
Within the U.Ok., Ford’s greatest Eu marketplace, the U.S. automaker let fall 20 dealerships in 2022 and 25 in 2021 in line with knowledge compiled by way of Automobile Broker. Ford nonetheless has the U.Ok.’s greatest broker community.
