The cars – and-motorcycles in the first quarter of this year, a 1.8 per cent reduction in revenue, turned down. It is the first time in 2013 that sales were down compared to the previous year, as reported to the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
The turnover of the industry is omlaaggetrokken due to the outbreak of the corona virus, and as a partial lockdown, which it is. This went into the business with a blow as it fell to the -46,9 at the beginning of the second quarter of the year.
The heavy-duty bedrijfsautobranche, specialist repairers, and the onderdelenhandelaren and saw all of the sales decline in the first quarter of the year. Only the deelbranche of state for trade and repair services of passenger vehicles recorded an increase of 4 per cent growth in revenues.
Nearly 85 percent of all businesses in the auto and motorcycles, expects lower revenues in the second quarter of the year. The first signs are already there, because in april, it decreased the sales of the importers of motor vehicles and motorcycles, with 62 percent of the time.
you can CONTROL to see a somewhat different picture of the industry. Earlier this week, noting that the industry association, 83 per cent of surveyed businesses in the sector, with confidence that their business is in the coronacrisis to get through.
The average revenue loss is estimated to be 39.6 percent, while more than 44 percent were. Also, expect less and less of entrepreneurs, within three months of loan they are looking for. The percentage of a state to 59,8 per cent, as it has in 80,5% of the respondents to the survey was about.