Collaboration for success
BIDVEST McCarthy has invested in an Isuzu Trucks dealership strategically sited just off the N4 at Gateway Industrial Park in Pretoria East. The Bidvest industrial conglomerate is extensively involved in freight management, logistics services, terminal operations, and marine and aviation services.
“Isuzu Truck dealers are a service organisation that also sell trucks, and this new dealer is a further development that flows out of a truck marketing study conducted in 2002,” says Isuzu Trucks’ chief operating officer, Craig Uren. “There are Isuzu Truck dealers in Pretoria North, Pretoria West and Midrand. The Bidvest McCarthy Pretoria East investment closes the service loop for this region in addition to a route presence on the N4.”
At the helm of the new operation is dealer principal LizaMarie Gibson, who has seven years of truck retail experience.
Says Gibson: “We are a lean, mean team with a solid focus on the distribution sector where Bidvest industrial has a strong presence.”
Steve Keys, group chief executive officer of Bidvest Automotive, says: “While SA is experiencing economic hard times, we do not see the market segments that this new dealership will serve contracting as much as the economy. Business success comes from co-operation and collaboration, and this is what we have established with Isuzu Truck SA.”
The facility is offering on-site, after-hours and Saturday servicing. In addition, there is a drivers’ lounge where drivers can relax comfortably while their trucks are being serviced.