The IMDA marks its seventh birthday as extra automotive sellers be part of
The Impartial Motor Sellers Affiliation has marked its seventh birthday in a 12 months that has introduced a whole lot of recent members to hitch its ranks.
Based on November 5, 2017, by six used automotive sellers and one trade professional to be a mouthpiece for independents and allow them to share and be taught finest follow, the affiliation has gone from power to power since its inception.
It now supplies members with help corresponding to free authorized recommendation, a service help community, masterclass occasions on scorching matters corresponding to AI, an employment and HR helpline, unique motor commerce insurance coverage and direct IMDA contact with the DVLA to help with members’ points.
Within the final 12 months its membership, which is free, has rocketed by virtually a 3rd, with greater than 500 new impartial sellers becoming a member of.
IMDA chairman Umesh Samani, who additionally runs his Specialist Automobiles Stoke dealership, mentioned: “It’s wonderful, once we began out seven years in the past who would have thought we might get to this place at present, I can solely thank the companions who’ve supported us every year, the founders’ committee and the present committee for all of the efforts they put in behind the scenes, and naturally the members who’ve joined and help one another with their recommendation and data.”
In 2022 the IMDA hosted a panel dialogue at Automotive Administration Stay, through which they tackled a number of the looming points and alternatives corresponding to electrical autos and inventory sourcing.
Stuart Saunders, co-founder and present treasurer of the IMDA, and proprietor of the City Automotive Firm close to Cambridge, added: “The affiliation was shaped to assist like-minded impartial motor sellers, who very often are left and not using a voice or help. We needed to alter that.
“That is just the start, and we are going to work away to make sure the IMDA continues to develop and supply extra help, companies and a voice for our members.”
