The Daub dealership in Horb am Neckar has won the "Used Car Award 2022" and is the best used car dealer in Germany. On the evening of April 26, 2022, the trade magazine "Gebrauchtwagen Praxis" presented the award in Würzburg together with industry partners Dekra, Real Garant and Santander.
Autohaus Daub is an independent dealership specializing in used cars, but is also a dealer for Kia and Suzuki. Managing Director Andreas Daub sees his company as a multi-brand center that offers vehicles in every price range. Customer orientation is fundamental for Daub: the dealership team initiated the "Test Drive 2 Go" to offer customers a shopping experience including a test drive despite the coronavirus pandemic. With "Test Drive 2 Go", the dealership delivers the dream car to the doorstep of the prospective customer. With these and other eye-catching marketing campaigns, the dealership has managed to grow - despite current difficulties in procuring vehicles - and thus secure its own economic future.
"The Daub dealership demonstrates the positive impact that precise market knowledge and prudent purchasing can have on business development. Coupled with imaginative marketing campaigns, the multi-brand center has developed into a recognized mobility service provider. The Daub dealership represents in the best possible way that the used car business is an important pillar in the car trade," commented Wolfgang Michel, editor-in-chief of "Gebrauchtwagen Praxis", on the decision.
Auto Weller in Osnabrück came in second place. The Toyota and Lexus dealership believes that success in the used car business is easier to plan than in the new car business. The success factors of goods, price, advertisement quality and processes are checked daily and controlled in real time via the "Weller app" developed in-house.
Third place goes to the AZF group of companies in Flensburg. AZF sells the VW Group brands VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat and Cupra and advertises that it has the largest coherent automobile exhibition at one location in Schleswig-Holstein. It exhibits up to 800 used cars on 60,000 square meters. In addition to more recent used cars from the Volkswagen Group, the dealership also markets older used cars of all brands for price-sensitive customers under its own "Glücksgriffe" brand.
Photo: Winners as well as sponsoring partners and jurors of the "Gebrauchtwagen Award 2022" (from left): Martin Schneider (Santander), Joachim Heim (Dekra), Andreas Daub (Autohaus Daub), Jascha Bräuer (Santander), Cornelia Kiese (Real Garant), Marc Gounaris (Dekra), Robert Leger (Real Garant) and Wolfgang Michel ("Gebrauchtwagen Praxis") (photo credit: Stefan Bausewein).
The winners of the "Used Car Award 2022":
1st place: Autohaus Daub, Horb am Neckar
2nd place: Auto Weller, Osnabrück
3rd place: AZF Group of Companies, Flensburg
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