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Admosphere: Advertising investments in car sales in Czech Rep fell in Q1, went up at Top 10 advertisers

May 9, 2012 | 03:35am CEToriginal
Fiat Group doubled investments, Skoda Auto and Toyota Motor reduced them in a double-digit pace. Profitability of investments in advertising...
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Admosphere: Carmakers decrease advertising investments in sale in Czech Rep

May 2, 2012 | 01:57am CEToriginal
In March 2012, the decline in advertising costs reached 18.9%; it is the fifth decline in a row. Hyundai Motor Czech and Skoda Auto have remained the leaders…
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Cebia plans to expand its team in connection with further expansion

April 18, 2012 | 11:16pm CEToriginal
At present, the company is looking for a marketing and PR communication specialist, which is a newly created position. Requirements, details...
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Sales of new cars in EU decreased by 7% in March

April 18, 2012 | 06:19pm CEToriginal
A total of 1.45 million cars represent the lowest March registrations since 1998. Development in individual countries, the market share of Czech manufacturers...
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Mobility Management Congress 2012: Fleet Management conferences to have follow-up of broad-ranged congress

April 10, 2012 | 12:52am CEToriginal
The first year will take place on April 26. The event’s speakers include representatives of Skoda Auto, SkoFIN, Volkswagen, Arval, Business Lease, LeasePlan, 3M, Siemens, PwC...
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Sales of new cars in Czech Rep dropped by 2.5% in March, LCVs sales by 5%

April 5, 2012 | 09:38pm CEToriginal
Registrations of trucks and buses also fell. The decline was tempered by Hyundai, Nissan, Volkswagen and Mitsubishi. SDA and PwC’s outlook for 2012...
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ALD Automotive has new head in Czech Rep

April 3, 2012 | 12:54am CEToriginal
Roman Schanner left the post of general manager at the Czech branch. His successor came from abroad...
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EU new cars sales fell by 9.7% in February, by 11.8% in euro area

March 16, 2012 | 04:05am CEToriginal
The reason is the continued decline in demand in south-western Europe. The results of individual countries and brands, growing market share of Skoda...
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Used car shops founded association in Czech Rep

March 6, 2012 | 12:03am CEToriginal
Current membership including new car dealers, such as BS Auto, association partners, such as Cebia and Eurotax, a second attempt to unify used car sale business...
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IIR holds E-Mobility conference in Prague in late February

February 23, 2012 | 03:53am CEToriginal
The second year of this event will focus on trends, forecasts, new EVs, EU support, or infrastructure development. Speakers at the conference will be...
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Sales of new cars in EU down by 7.1% in January, fourth month in a row

February 17, 2012 | 02:17am CEToriginal
The decline was mitigated by CEE markets like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania. Apart from Hyundai and Kia brands, Skoda grew as well. Details, a comment by KPMG...
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LMC Automotive: Global sales of vehicles under 3.5 tons down by 5% in January

February 14, 2012 | 12:46am CEToriginal
The reason is especially a sharp decline in China. Developments in Western Europe, CEE and USA...
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Car sales in China fell by 24% in January, not due to economic factors though

February 10, 2012 | 03:05am CEToriginal
This is the sharpest decline in more than three years’ time. The reason for the January drop, analysts' outlook for 2012...
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CSSD proposes that odometer downsizing becomes criminal offence in Czech Rep

February 7, 2012 | 03:44am CEToriginal
The opposition party wants to seek support for the proposal across the political spectrum. However, the government intends to qualify this behaviour as an offence...
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Analysts: New cars might be slightly cheaper in Czech Rep in 2012, but in lower categories only

January 26, 2012 | 01:24am CEToriginal
Equipment will continue to be increased and various services will be included into the price of the car. Long waiting periods...
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Admosphere: Advertising investments in car sales in Czech Rep increased by 12.2% in 2011

January 18, 2012 | 11:47pm CEToriginal
The biggest advertiser has become Hyundai, which doubled its investments. Investments of other car manufacturers/importers, profitability...
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Sales of new cars in EU fell in December, third month in row

January 18, 2012 | 12:18am CEToriginal
Over the full year 2011 the sales decline reached 1.7%. Results in individual markets, KPMG’s comment...
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Sales of new cars in Czech Rep should stagnate or decline slightly in 2012

January 10, 2012 | 12:40am CEToriginal
Prices should not change much in most segments and should go up in the premium segment slightly. The outlook of SDA and PwC...
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Sales of new cars fell by 0.7% in Czech Rep in December, LCV sales rose by 33%

January 6, 2012 | 02:21am CEToriginal
Registrations of trucks and buses went up. The largest growth was showed by brands Ford, Renault, Skoda a Dacia. Details...
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Car sales down by 3.5% in EU in November

December 18, 2011 | 11:45pm CEToriginal
The pace of decline accelerated from 1.8% in October. According to KPMG, the reason is problems of the euro area and emerging second wave of postponing car purchases...
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QBE Insurance prepared third variant of GAP insurance in Czech Rep

December 1, 2011 | 11:53pm CEToriginal
The insurance StopGAP covers the decline in market value of the car in case of total loss or theft. Details, options, limits, prices...
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New car sales in Germany rose by 1% in October

November 3, 2011 | 01:47am CEToriginal
The growth rate thus significantly decreased from 8% in September. According to KPMG and PwC, it is an expected slowdown due to fears of further developments of the debt crisis in the euro area...
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Median, Flotila: Fiat became friendliest carmaker to smaller corporate clients for 2011

October 30, 2011 | 11:58pm CEToriginal
Non-premium brands succeeded in the survey, in which the offer range was not as important as access and communication. Strangely set criteria...
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VVA 2011: Swell to hold workshop on car development in Czech Rep in mid-November

October 26, 2011 | 12:10am CEToriginal
The event will deal with numerical simulations and testing in the development cycle of an automobile. The workshop will have the following speakers...
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BMW Group strengthened CRM activities in Czech Rep

October 25, 2011 | 11:56pm CEToriginal
The importer created a new position of CRM manager, to which Andrea Cernakova was named. Her previous work at Mazda and EurotaxGlass’s, cooperation of BMW with TBWA...
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