New DC "TEKHINKOM LADA Khimki" became the world's largest

5 December 2018

The largest Russian mono-brand dealership LADA opened in Khimki

The day before yesterday at the 24th kilometer of the Leningrad highway has opened the largest in Russia mono-brand dealership TEKHINKOM LADA Moscow.

At the opening ceremony of the dealership was attended by the President of JSC "AVTOVAZ" President of PJSC "AVTOVAZ" Yves Andre Karakatsanis, Director of the Directorate for development of JSC "AVTOVAZ" Sergei Kutaisov, Executive Vice President of sales and marketing at PJSC "AVTOVAZ" Jan Ptacek and Executive Director of the "MRO "TEKHINKOM" Alex Solodchenkov.

At a press conference on the opening of Alexey Solodchenkov said this is the largest (for the brand LADA – the biggest in the world!) General dealership became the second part of the project "MRO "TEKHINKOM", aimed at the development of a dealer network in the Metropolitan area. The third part will be the same DC input in the Central district of Kopta and Pushkin. The total cost of the project is ₽240 million annual Design capacity of DTS LADA Khimki is estimated at 2.5 thousand cars.

Center "LADA Khimki" has resonas 30 posts, conducts all operation and warranty service of cars of the brand LADA, including maintenance of the corporate fleet and parks operations for the trade-in.

In turn, Vice-President, Jan Ptacek noted that the brand LADA is developing in the last years quite successfully and have returned to their market share of over 20% that became the best indicator in recent years. Today the brand has reached a new level of quality and modeli new Vesta and XRAY correspond to the world level and a restyled family of Granta. He also noted that the presence of investors willing to invest in making these DC – an important sign of "healing" of the brand.

P. S. A. Solodchenkov recalled that the group "tekhinkom" just turned 26 years old. In 2016-2017, the group entered the top-500 Russian companies, and this year plans to repeat its success and is already ahead of sales figures in 2017 by 15%. The group sells equipment to business, commercial (trucks GAZ, URAL, buses of GAZ Group, and KAMAZ and Isuzu vehicles) and passenger cars (unit "TEKHINKOM-Auto"). The first passenger DC TEKHINKOM was opened in November 2011 in the Metropolitan area Strogino, where parallel sold two brands, LADA and UAZ.

According to "AUTOSTAT info", for 10 months in Moscow were sold 9383 units (+23.4 per cent) of LADA – 9-e a place in the market and 9250 units (+9.4 percent) in MO – 5th place in the market.