Tag: Delticom
Delticom’s motorbike tyre retail site, Moto-tyres, offers flexible fitting for new season
Moto-tyres.co.uk, Delticom’s e-commerce site dedicated to motorbike tyres, is offering a wide range of tyres at the start of the new biking season, with flexible options for fitment. While many experienced bikers will want to fit their own tyres, Moto-tyres said its option to deliver to one of its fitting partners free of charge ensures those inclined to leave tyre fitment in the hands of professionals can use the site too.
New head of key account management B2B at Delticom
Delticom reports that Nathalie Kronenberg is now in charge of key account management for the company’s B2B activities. Kronenberg is based at the online specialist’s headquarters in Hannover, Germany and has led the strategic development of B2B key accounts around the world since January. In addition to building up this business within Europe, Kronenberg’s tasks also include expansion to America and the Asia/Pacific region, as well as further promoting the digitisation of the company’s bulk business.
Mytyres.co.uk gains Michelin approval
Michelin has designated mytyres.co.uk as a “Michelin Approved Website”. By doing so, Michelin confirms that mytyres.co.uk meets all the quality standards established by the tyre manufacturer for products, services, and the sale of its tyres. The seal is awarded by TÜV Rheinland on the basis of an annual test.
Delticom buys AutoPink assets
Online tyre retailer Delticom has acquired the material assets of French online used car portal AutoPink. In addition to giving the German company the AutoPink and Facilicar brands, the approximately half a million euro purchase price brings the corresponding domains, customer base and existing IT systems and contracts into the Delticom fold.
Dealers can profit from modern classics
Modern classics such as the Saab 900, Ford Granada and Audi 80 are rising in popularity, and many devotees of these cars strive to maintain them as true to original condition as possible. This, says Delticom portal Yourtyres.co.uk, represents an opportunity for tyre dealers and workshops.
Delticom site wins TestBild e-commerce crown
ReifenDirekt.de, Delticom’s mytyres.co.uk equivalent in Germany, has won first place in TestBild’s latest online tyre retailer test. ReifenDirekt.de won with a score of 2.31 based on four categories with different weightings, namely: "choice/selection", "tyre prices", "service and advice" and "privacy and security". In addition to the extensive review of the shops has TestBild also evaluated customer reviews of each provider.
Strong Q2 result lifts Delticom’s bottom line for H1 2016
Online tyre retailer Delticom has profited from the same cold weather that held sales back earlier in the year, at least to an extent. Reporting on its financial performance in the second quarter of 2016, the company noted that low temperatures prompted European motorists to delay fitting summer tyres to their vehicles until after Easter, and while the delayed switch to summer tyres helped boost Q2 2016 sales by 22.0 per cent year-on-year to €169.3 million, the company suggests that dealers sold almost five per cent fewer replacement car tyres to consumers during the first half of the year. Sales for the first six months of 2016 were up 9.9 per cent to €275.1 million.
Yourtyres.co.uk offers ways to plan for winter to ‘stay ahead of the game’
Yourtyres.co.uk, an exclusive British online platform for B2B professionals from Europe’s leading online tyre retailer Delticom AG, has encouraged dealers and workshops to plan for winter in advance and ensure a competitive advantage for themselves. The platform states that it has already stocked up with winter tyres from all product segments.
Yourtyres.co.uk hails positive response at Reifen
Delticom, the German-based online tyre retail and wholesale firm, presented its entire range of B2B Services during Reifen in Essen. According to company representatives, which market themselves as yourtyres.co.uk over here, the trade fair appearance proved extremely positive, resulting in “hundreds of interesting and constructive discussions with international clients and media representatives.”
Delti adds Goodride support centres in Germany
At the start of October, the truck/commercial tyre division of Delticom AG, reported that it has successfully recruited further authorized Goodride support centres in Germany.
Delticom opens Turkish tyre portal
Online tyre retailer Delticom has entered a further national market with the launch of a B2C portal in Turkey. The new site follows the format the company has successfully adopted in existing markets and can be found at lastik-online.com.tr.
Delticom reports higher turnover, plans warehouse closure
Online tyre retailer Delticom reports that its revenues in the first half of this year rose 10.7 per cent year-on-year to €250.2 million. EBIDTA for the period between 1 January and 30 June was up 6.4 per cent to €6.6 million, although the EBITDA margin contracted from 2.7 to 2.6 per cent. EBIT decreased 32.3 per cent in the reporting period to € 1.4 million, while consolidated net income totaled €0.7 million, up from the €0.2 million net loss reported a year earlier. Earnings per share were €0.06.
Delticom announces TyresNet launch
Online tyre retailer Delticom has begun rolling out the first in a series of new national websites that combine tyre sales, tips and information in the one location. Delticom’s name for the new information portal is TyresNet, and it says it aims to “open up the world of tyres and wheels” to motorists and tyre, rim and wheel suppliers. The first two sites to go live cater to the German (reifen.de) and Austrian (reifen.at) markets.
Delticom: Tirendo’s business concept not successful
At Delticom’s Annual General Meeting in Germany yesterday, shareholders were informed that the online tyre retailer would distribute a dividend of € 0.25 per share for the 2014 financial year – only half that of the previous year. This smaller dividend particularly reflected a three-quarter drop in net profit – a decline “mainly due to the higher cost base after the Tirendo acquisition.” Andreas Prüfer, head of the company’s board of management, also told shareholders that the Tirendo business concept “of achieving 50 per cent or 100 per cent growth in the online tyre market through high advertising and personnel expenses did not prove successful.”
Delticom sees red in first 9 months of 2014
While climatic conditions affected sales at Delticom in the three months to 30 September, it was its 2013-acquired Tirendo operation that wreaked havoc on the bottom line.