The 53rd Auto Maintenance & Repair International Trade Fair was held at the National Convention Center in Beijing two weeks ago. Widely considered to be the gateway to Asia’s burgeoning automotive equipment market, it is only appropriate that the AMR show be centrally located within the borders of the world’s second largest automobile consuming country.
There is tremendous opportunity for automotive market expansion in Eastern Asian countries. In late 2009, China alone consumed 35,000 new automobiles, becoming the number one auto-consuming nation in the world for December and surpassing the US in auto sales for the first time in history. Not surprisingly, a large portion of the new cars purchased were manufactured by American companies like GM and Ford. In fact, according to a recent BBC article, General Motors has been “number one in China for many years.” That’s why on the bustling AMR trade-show floor, the automotive repair industry’s biggest players from 50 countries turned out for what was an unprecedented chance to meet with distributors, end-users, professionals and key decisions-makers face-to-face.
BendPak / Ranger was there to showcase our innovative car lifts and to introduce the future of automotive equipment products to an eager new marketplace.
