July 23, Bentley is located in Pearl River New City Guangzhou, officially opened the new exhibition hall. At the opening ceremony, Chinese President Jimmy Kuo Tim Bentley, said the next five years to deliver a total of more than 4000 vehicles, making China the world's top three markets in the world Bentley. To achieve this goal, China in the next five years, Bentley dealer network will be expanded to 20.
Tim Jiong Mai, chairman of Bentley China, said the five-year plan, Guangzhou has been listed as one of the key cities. At present, the Bentley cars in South China's holdings is 300, accounting for a quarter of the amount retained. As of June 2009, Bentley sold a total of more than 130 in Guangzhou Bentley Motors, has maintained an annual average growth rate of more than 90%.
It is reported that in 2008, Bentley sales in China 407, the first half of the financial crisis, Bentley in mainland China sales decline by 10%. However, given the economic situation improved, Jiong Tian believe that full-year sales of wheat can be restored to last year's level, or even to obtain positive growth.
Currently in the domestic luxury car market, Bentley can be said to outshine others, Rolls-Royce and Maybach are all due to a single product, in terms of volume and Bentley could not match. But in the future, as China's market highlights the importance of the world's leading luxury car brands have increased market development efforts in China, such as Lamborghini, Maserati have recently carried out in China, different forms of marketing activities, while the Rolls-Royce has also introduced a more youthful, sports-oriented new models, the future Bentley faces competition in the Chinese market will become more intense.
In this regard, Bentley, chairman of China Jiong Mai Tien believes that the birth rate of China's richest and faster, our data show that China has now is the world's second largest number of billionaires country's top high market potential is large enough car, so more brands to join the competition is not a bad thing, but will accelerate the development of China's car market high.