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Leasing of cars and LCVs in Czech Rep down in H1, trucks and buses up

August 8, 2011 | 03:53am CEToriginal
Number of contracts concluded, financial and operating leases, fleet management, consumer loans, car financing penetration...
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Generali PPF Holding: Largest accident insurance penetration in CEE in Slovenia

August 8, 2011 | 03:30am CEToriginal
Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria follow. In the Czech Republic, clients of Ceska pojistovna are more responsible than other motorists...
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Sales of new cars in Czech Rep rose by 6.4% in July, LCVs sales by 21.1%

August 4, 2011 | 05:02am CEToriginal
According to SDA, the July increase has virtually compensated the June drop. Development of trucks and buses, the results of individual brands...
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Car insurance market in Czech Rep fell by 7% in H1, damage liability more than accident insurance

July 29, 2011 | 05:17am CEToriginal
Number of insured vehicles increased by 170,000 units, premium has thus been getting cheaper. The results of insurance companies...
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Sales of commercial vehicles in EU rose by 1.5% in June, disappointing analysts’ expectations

July 27, 2011 | 04:48am CEToriginal
This is a significant reduction in the growth rate from 25.1% in May. Sales of vans have even decreased and it is the first decline since February 2010. The outlook for the next months...
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CLFA: New Consumer Credit Act restricted availability of car financing

July 17, 2011 | 09:57pm CEToriginal
The leasing companies have reportedly started refusing to fund cars from unverified vendors. The issue of financial leasing...
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Sales of passenger cars in EU fell by 8.1% in June, by 2.1% in H1

July 17, 2011 | 09:20pm CEToriginal
The decline in June was showed by all the major automotive markets of the EU. The reason is the effect of scrapping bonus and economic and consumer uncertainty...
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CLFA: Number of clients resigning from credit contracts within 14 days rose only by 0.5% in H1

July 14, 2011 | 06:35am CEToriginal
The effect of the new law on product prices, the situation at companies Provident Financial, GE Money Auto, Cofidis, Home Credit...
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Pekny (SDA, Kia): Real transaction prices of new cars in Czech Rep has not been changing significantly, communication prices go further down

July 12, 2011 | 05:48am CEToriginal
The price difference between the Czech Republic and Western Europe, the benefits of re-exports, development of the finance penetration, the impact of the shortened depreciation...
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Car Importers Association considered including non-members in stickers project

July 12, 2011 | 05:00am CEToriginal
The project could thus include dealerships and service shops of Skoda and Hyundai in the Czech Republic. Launching the project and a database of authorized partners...
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Sales of new cars in Czech Rep fell by 12.8% in June, LCV sales by 15.4%

July 8, 2011 | 04:42am CEToriginal
According to SDA, the affect of depreciation exception still continues. Results of individual brands, the spring evaluation, reduced outlook for 2011...
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Sales of commercial vehicles in EU rose by 25.1% in May

June 30, 2011 | 12:38am CEToriginal
It is an acceleration of growth from 9.5% in April. In the Czech Republic, sales went up by 27%, some European countries, however, showed a sharp decline...
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AutoBinck sold 5,500 new and 1,400 used cars to customers in Czech Rep in 2010

June 28, 2011 | 01:09am CEToriginal
Sales of brands and car dealerships, results in Q1 2011, sales of used cars, results and plans of Business Lease, 20 years on the market...
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Vemex wants to install 10 public CNG filling stations in Czech Rep by 2013

June 23, 2011 | 04:32am CEToriginal
Vemex is negotiating it with petrol stations and at the same time it wants to build filling equipment in companies. The next step is to make run the fleet on CNG…
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GE Money Auto wants to defend primacy in used cars and enhance its position in new cars in 2011

June 20, 2011 | 02:52am CEToriginal
The number of new contracts in 2010 and expected growth in the years 2011 and 2012, the share of captive/branded financing in the Czech Republic...
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Sales of new cars in EU rose by 7.1% in May

June 20, 2011 | 02:47am CEToriginal
After five months of 2011, sales show a drop of 0.8%. Results of individual countries including the Czech Republic and Slovakia, KPMG's outlook...
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SDA, SAP agree to transfer part of money for environmental disposal of car wrecks elsewhere

June 9, 2011 | 01:16am CEToriginal
In 2010, two thirds of finances were not used. Statistics on receiving money from the environmental tax in the Czech Republic (the fee for re-registration of a used car)...
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Veletrhy Brno wants to attract Slovak companies to Autotec in 2012

June 7, 2011 | 04:30am CEToriginal
The organizer has begun leading talks with ZAP. The fair designed for professionals might thus have around 500 exhibitors...
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Sales of new cars fell by 2.5% in Czech Rep in May, LCV sales rose by 0.3%

June 6, 2011 | 05:51am CEToriginal
According to the SDA, the affect of depreciation exception continues. Demand for trucks has more than doubled, after buses it has increased by 10%. The results of individual brands...
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Allianz intends to further improve damage liability portfolio in Czech Rep, willing to attract decent drivers

June 1, 2011 | 04:55am CEToriginal
The insurance company has cheapened damage liability for decent drivers. On the contrary, it has increased the price for offenders. Details of pricing changes, the insurance supplement...
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EU sales of commercial vehicles up by 9.5% in April, by 17% in Czech Rep

May 30, 2011 | 01:16am CEToriginal
Sales of light and medium commercial vehicles rose by 5%, sales of heavy trucks by more than 50%...
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Experts: April drop in sales of new cars in Czech Rep probably caused by several factors, May can confirm some

May 19, 2011 | 09:45pm CEToriginal
Opinions of PwC, KPMG, SDA, AAA Auto; the impact of depreciation exceptions, the earthquake in Japan and a drop in fleet sales...
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Car financing in Czech Rep up by 7.8% in Q1 for the first time after several quarters of decline

May 19, 2011 | 12:57am CEToriginal
Most companies strengthened, Home Credit recorded three-digit growth. A newcomer in the Top 20 is a Czech company, RT Torax. The results of companies...
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New cars sales in EU fell by 4.1% in April

May 18, 2011 | 05:00am CEToriginal
All major markets excluding Germany suffered sales decline. Negative news from southern Europe, the impact of earthquakes in Japan...
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CLFA prepared draft to amendment of Consumer Credit Act

May 16, 2011 | 10:06pm CEToriginal
The association updated 22 points; in most of them it reached an agreement with many state institutions. Other issues of the financial sector to be solved...
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