Bentley’s sales up 25%
STRONG demand in international markets is continuing to drive sales at luxury car manufacturer Bentley Motors.
The Crewe-based company’s sales at the end of the third quarter of this year (September 30) are up 25% on 2011. It has so far delivered 5,969 cars, compared with 4,759 at the same stage last year.
Sales have continued to grow in every region and the Americas maintains its position as Bentley’s largest global market with deliveries up 29% on 2011 with 1,750 cars delivered to customers. In China deliveries were up 26% with 1,525 cars delivered.
Kevin Rose, sales and marketing director said: ““With a 25% year on year increase in sales we are maintaining our objective of strong double digit growth in 2012.
” We are continuing to see significant expansion in all of our global regions and remain the market leader amongst our direct competitors.
“Sales have been driven by new model introductions including the Continental GT and GTC V8 which are now arriving with customers. In addition we have seen a very robust performance from our four door vehicles with Mulsanne deliveries up by over 15% and Flying Spur sales up by 5%.”
Bentley’s other global regions echoed the strong performance in the American and China regions. In Europe customer deliveries were up by 20% with 950 cars delivered while in the UK, which has recently been a weak performer, they were up 10% with 854 cars delivered.
Elsewhere deliveries increased by 43% in the Middle East (531 cars delivered); 35% in Asia Pacific (229 cars delivered) and 69% in Japan with 130 cars delivered.
