We want to be a partner for garages, offering everything they need in one place. In order to achieve this, we have launched the Marketplace platform, which develops our portfolio indirectly - connecting car mechanics and all companies and businesses interested in cooperating with them. What are the details of the project and what benefits it can bring to Inter Cars customers?
The Inter Cars Marketplace is a platform linking mechanics with representatives of automotive and automotive-related companies. Its main role is to complement the existing Inter Cars distribution business model for product groups that cannot be effectively offered through the existing channels.
- We actively analyse market trends and the needs of our customers. We want to give automotive garages the opportunity to find everything they need to seamlessly repair their customers' cars. This includes not only new spare parts, but also used parts and still serviceable components that are no longer manufactured or have limited availability for various reasons. For us this has a double meaning, business and ecological - says Maciej Oleksowicz, President of the Management Board of Inter Cars SA.
In connection with the development of the platform, Inter Cars has entered into a partnership agreement with the Association of Car Recycling Forum, which brings together companies involved in the scraping and disassembly of cars and other vehicles. The aim of this organisation is to promote the handling of cars and their components throughout their entire life cycle, so as to minimise their adverse impact on the environment and, at the same time, to make useful use of the parts and materials they contain. Thanks to the agreement established in May this year, FORS members can offer their parts on the Inter Cars sales platform, taking responsibility for their quality and after-sales customer service.
Not only parts for cars
However, Inter Cars Marketplace is not only about car parts. It is also everything related to the running of a car repair garage and its daily operation. Offers for the sale of garage equipment and tools, office accessories are just some of the product categories announced by the project's creators.
New to the Marketplace is the possibility to purchase electric bicycles and scooters that can be used by garages as replacement vehicles.
- Our mission is to provide car mechanics with the opportunity to develop and take all unnecessary responsibilities off their shoulders. We want to create a place where they can find everything they need in their daily work. In short, we want to give them the chance to develop their own range. Used parts is just one of the categories that we want to be present in the Inter Cars Marketplace. As a market leader, we want to support our customers in their search for new opportunities to acquire new customer-consumers and thus increase the profit of their garage business - says Momchil Kovachev, Chief Digital Officer at Inter Cars SA, responsible for the development of the project.
Where to find Inter Cars Marketplace?
The new Inter Cars sales platform is already present in Poland, Croatia, Romania, Lithuania and Bulgaria. The creators plan to gradually develop its presence in further markets where Inter Cars runs its business activities. It can be accessed via Inter Cars e-Catalogue. Although the new platform is a completely separate entity, it is fully integrated into Inter Cars e-Catalogue. This means that it can be accessed using the same login and password.
