Car dealer Frey closes locations in Vienna
Sales of the Toyota and Lexus brands will be discontinued at the end of the year. Social plan for employees.
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Anita Staudacher ,
Robert Kleedorfer
40 employees. One name that sounds less in the domestic automotive sector: Toyota Frey will close its two remaining locations in Vienna Inzersdorf and in the Danube city at the end of the year. The dealer announced on Monday.
The reason given was that the importer Toyota Austria had not given its approval for the continued sales of the Toyota and Lexus brands.
At the beginning of this year, the dealership partnership with Toyota Austria was extended for another four years. Frey did not want to comment on why this has now failed.
In any case, Frey was still the general importer for Austria himself until the end of 2018, before the company was more or less gently urged to hand over the business to Toyota Austria.
First closings
The beginning of the end took place in March when the houses in Amstetten and Auhof were closed. The Vienna Arsenal, Wiener Neustadt and Salzburg locations were also closed in September.
40 employees are now affected, there is a redundancy plan. For the distribution of Aston Martin and the Chinese brands MG and Maxus, measures for the continuation are to be taken shortly.
New dealers
After the closings, Toyota Austria now wants to find new dealers for sales and service. This has already been found in Salzburg with the AVAG group. Further locations in Vienna are planned.
AVAG is already represented at 26 locations in Austria and carries the brands Mercedes, Ford, Kia, Peugeot and Nissan. With 5,200 employees in seven countries and 180 locations, the Augsburg group sells around 130,000 vehicles a year. The annual turnover is around 2.4 billion euros.