Cefin invests 20m euros in doubling servicing network

Cefin Romania, local importer of Iveco commercial vehicles, will invest 20 million euros within the next five years in building 10 service centres, with the network’s coverage expected to double. The company follows an expansion recipe which has already been put into practice by auto importers and dealers, which, after the sales boom in 2002-2007, have focused on expanding their servicing capacity. Cefin currently has a network of 18 sales offices for Iveco trucks and eight servicing centres, with another three to be opened by the yearend. Two centres will be opened in Targu-Mures and Suceava, while an integrated centre will be completed in Buzau, which will include sales, as well as having six working stations. Overall investments of the Cefin group into the post-sales servicing centre have amounted to 20 million euros so far, and the number of employees has exceeded 300. “We currently have 900 contracts underway, with over 100 of them being nationwide contracts with clients from all transport-related sectors,” said Ionel Balasa, Cefin’s manager of servicing operations.