{"id":1037,"date":"2014-07-28T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tecalemit.co.uk\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:03:12","slug":"tecalemit-unipart-automotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tecalemit.co.uk\/2014\/07\/tecalemit-unipart-automotive\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecalemit \/ Unipart Automotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Philip Cledwyn, Tecalemit Sales and Marketing Director<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you\u2019ll be aware Unipart Automotive has gone into Administration and was a distributor of Tecalemit equipment.\u00a0 This short paper explains briefly how that impacts on Tecalemit.<\/p>\n<p>It hopefully goes without saying that I and all my colleagues at Tecalemit have personal friends and acquaintances at Unipart Automotive, who have lost their jobs, had fundamental and unsought changes to their working lives, or whose future is uncertain, and we feel very much for them at this time.<\/p>\n<p>However, the impact on Tecalemit itself, and Tecalemit customers, is limited.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the position:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The financial impact isn\u2019t a consideration \u2013 we were aware of the problems, stopped supplying Unipart Automotive some time ago, and had assertively reduced their credit position with us.\u00a0 When it has all shaken out, yes, we\u2019ll be owed some money, but the amount involved is annoying rather than critical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interruption to supply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no interruption to supply of Tecalemit equipment \u00a0\u2013 customers can deal with any one of our distributors or should they need further technical advice they can talk to a Tecalemit sales person, call us or email us (<strong>01752 219111 \/<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:sales@tecalemit.co.uk\"><strong>sales@tecalemit.co.uk<\/strong><\/a>) and we\u2019ll be delighted to help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our analysis of the situation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final point I would make is that there has been an excess of resellers for some time which no market sector could sustain in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t have wished this on Unipart Automotive and feel greatly for the friends who worked for the company and whose position is now difficult; but purely from a business perspective we believe it will restore vigour and strength to the market and may even be the saving of some other companies.<\/p>\n<p>There will doubtless be some froth and turbulence in the market for a while but then it should settle down with greater stability than before.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of a reseller is administratively inconvenient but the fact is that the relationship with Unipart Automotive was already over and the market is now undergoing changes to accommodate the new situation.<\/p>\n<p>I regret the impact on the Unipart Automotive\u00a0employees but some kind of substantive shake up in the market was inevitable.\u00a0 It would be preferable to achieve that through strategy and corporate activity rather than in this brutal way, but change had to come.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Cledwyn<\/p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing Director<\/p>\n<p><strong>tecalemit.co.uk \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>+44 (0) 1752 219111 \/\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:sales@tecalemit.co.uk\"><strong>sales@tecalemit.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Philip Cledwyn, Tecalemit Sales and Marketing Director As you\u2019ll be aware Unipart Automotive has gone into Administration and was a distributor of Tecalemit equipment.\u00a0 This short paper explains briefly how that impacts on Tecalemit. 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