“Retail sales continued to show a gradual recovery in June, which was in line with industry forecasts, despite the growing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our daily lives as the country moved from lockdown level 2 to level 3, and then, at the end of June, we experienced a really bad week with rapidly rising infection levels and the imposition of lockdown level 4. “The aggregate sales of 38 030 units were an increase of 6 387 units or 20,2% on the performance in June 2020, while total vehicle sales for the first half of 2021 were 40,1% higher than at the same time in 2020. This is genuinely great news. We are halfway through the year and we are tracking ahead of most industry forecasts, which is encouraging.
Gradual growth in retail sales
“The fact that 86,3% of the 38 030 new vehicles sold in South Africa in June went through the retail dealer channels is a strong indicator of growing confidence in buying capital assets by both the business and consumer sectors of the market,” said Mark Dommisse, chairperson of the National Automobil Dealers’ Association (Nada), after analysing the latest sales data distributed today by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa.
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