The Association of Distributors and Manufacturers of Automotive Spare Parts, together with Santander Bank Polska and MotoFocus.pl prepared a report on "Industry, trade and services in the automotive industry" summarizing the situation of the automotive industry in the first quarter of 2021
Spare parts distribution did not slow down in the pandemic
At the beginning of pandemic, it seemed that large increase of transport cost, problems with continuity of deliveries resulting from closing borders of countries and lack of economic stability in Europe, and also the change of character of work for many employees – moving to remote work – are factors, that would influence the results of distributors. Data summarizing the year 2020 in the latest SDCM barometer shows that despite all those difficulties on the market, distributors quickly adapted to the new situation and gained positive results in 2020. The first quarter 2021 also confirmed this, as 76 percent of respondents claimed to have recorded increase in revenue, compared to Q4 2020.