October 2018 Autumn Meeting, Paris

Our Autumn Meeting took place at Hotel Meliá La Défense, Paris, on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th October 2018.  The topics covered were:

• Transformation in the aftermarket

• More cars under ‘professional fleet management’: what will this mean for the aftermarket?

• The future of the crash repair market: industry structure and pressures

• Charting the consolidation of the European parts distribution market

• Dealer groups and network change

• Guest speaker Owen Edwards, Grant Thornton – the environment for dealer group merger and acquisition activity

• Dealer network restructuring: changes ahead

• Top dealer group trends from around the world

• Guest speaker Benjamin Bauquin, CAR Avenue: what is the perspective of a top dealer group?

• Translating ‘omni-channel’ into practice

• What prospects for the used car superstores?

• Omni-channel’ in practice at the dealership level

• The growth of the ‘monthly payment’

• Monthly payments for motoring: the new model?

• Guest speaker Ian Plummer, AutoTrader: consumer attitudes to monthly payments and new ‘ownership’ models

• Subscription models: what factors drive their performance?