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With 30 years of automotive industry experience across all segments, Origin Auto is perfectly placed to support you in critical areas

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UK Market and New Business Set Up

The UK automotive market is the most sophisticated, complex and heavily regulated in Europe.

From the VCA to the FCA and on to the DVLA; How do you register with each and manage your ongoing compliance? How do you meet Thatcham requirements? How do you achieve competitiveness in all sales channels?

We have a deep understanding of the market and real world experience of setting up a new UK entity for a well-known OEM brand. We know exactly what it takes to establish a UK presence and maximise your potential.

Distribution

Home to six of Europe's ten largest retailer groups, the UK is a highly professional and dynamic retail environment. In recent years, alternative distribution models have been deployed, including Agency, however, as the market returns to a "push" environment, the benefits of the franchise approach are being rediscovered.

The approach to distribution has a fundamental impact on business structure; What are the benefits and implications of the different approaches? Which model is the best for a new business and is it appropriate for an established business to switch?

We have experience of all key retail models including the introduction of Agency.

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Electric Vehicles

The UK Electric Vehicle market has grown rapidly in recent years, but that growth has not been uniform across all channels and recently appears to have stalled. Discounting has become prevalent as the government delays the ICE ban but holds ZEV sales requirements.

What are the consequences of the ZEV mandate and how should you respond? Where do the incentives remain for EVs and what impact does this have?

We’ve been working with all aspects of Electric Vehicles for nine years and understand both the benefits and challenges.

Launch and Lifecycle Management

An increasingly challenging environment makes launch and lifecycle management more important than ever, but the need to react quickly means a traditional approach is no longer appropriate.

How do you balance the need for continuous product actions and customer choice with cost and complexity reductions? How can simple specification and pricing issues at launch undermine your entire product lifecycle? Who are the key industry opinion-formers that you need to influence and why?

Through the ownership of 12 new model launches we’ve built a deep understanding across all segments. Through in-cycle actions, we've delivered cost and complexity savings of £250m per year.

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