This year’s 15 Industry and Motorization Market Congress was unusually held in an on-line form, because of the pandemic. As always, during the event, there were presentations showing the analysis of market situation and forecast for coming months.

This year's panel discussion on market summary was hosted by Vice-President of Inter cars, Krzysztof Soszyński with Witold Piestrzeniewicz from KYB Europe Company.  

The main topic of the session „Summary of Q1-Q3 2020. Forecast for Q4.”
was, of course, pandemic and its influence on the economy, including the automotive spare parts and garages industry.

Introduction to the discussion was composed of recollection of sales results from March 2020, which is considered to be the first month of pandemic in Poland,
and comparison to results from March 2019. A substantial decrease in the number
of customers in garages was noticed at that time, as well as a decrease
in income of distributors and companies manufacturing for
the independent automotive aftermarket.

After three quarters of the year, most of the distributors of spare parts recorded decrease in revenues. but the results are not as bad, as one could expect back in spring. Moreover, over one third of surveyed companies recorded increase of revenues. This does not mean good moods which are to be expected before the summary of the whole year.  

More than half of distributors are afraid of further drops in sale. It is worth remembering that October analysis was started back before the escalation
of second wave of pandemic. Today the moods of distributors would probably
be even worse.