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professionals of the Tipler Network of Dealers and fleets throughout South America. Through the courses offered by CTT, Tipler says it is committed to delivering the best solutions for retreading by offering a differentiated support, involving training and the dissemination of best practices related
to retread tyres and their use in fleets, "explains Richard Suarez , commercial director of Tipler.
New classroom and distance courses are planned for 2014 and are available free to all dealers and customers of the Tipler Network.
When these three new employees start work at Vipal Europe, this will end the first phase of expansion of personnel planned for the year 2014, which includes focused sales representatives in the Balkans and parts of Eastern Europe (based at the subsidiary in Slovenia) , a sales representative in Italy, who operates also in France and Benelux (based in Slovenia), a sales representative dedicated to the Iberian market and attention to North Africa and the Middle East (based at the subsidiary in Spain) and a fourth sales representative, based at the branch in Germany, operates in this country, as well as in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic countries, says Alessandro Bottesini Campos,
Manager Vipal Europe.
The expansion plan was approved by Vipal’s Management of International business in October 2013 and is scheduled to take place in two parts during 2014. Probably during the fair in Essen this year, we will finish the second part and so inform the market, says Leandro Rigon, Manager of International Business. Under the coordination of Fabricio Nedeff, 4 salesmen and 3 process engineers will have conditions to meet the current demand of European customers in 2014 and in the medium term.
Vipal Benefits Fleets and Truck Owners with BNDES Card
There are a number of advantages for those who retread their tyres in the Vipal Authorised Network. One of these advantages is credit, which provides a financial breather to the fleets in their business. Therefore, the more facilities given to fleets with regards to tyres, the second biggest cost within a fleet, the higher the profitability of their business
This was confirmed by Vipal in 2013 in relation to the BNDES Card, a credit service offered by the company through the National Development Bank. The growth of this service with Vipal customers was 9 per cent compared to 2012. The payment of tyre retreading with BNDES allows payments over 48 fixed installments, revolving credit and attractive rates of interest. The retreader who offers this service also has the advantage of safety, since the funding is pre - approved by the bank.
The BNDES card is one of the benefits that the carrier can get retreading tyres from an authorised Vipal Network dealer, of which there are 240 distributed in all regions of Brazil.
New Employees of Vipal Europe in Training at the Factory in Brazil
Vipal Europe, in order to offer its clients more efficient operations and meet growing market demand, sent in February 2014 three new engineers to be trained at the CTV retreading school at Vipal for 90 days. The new affiliate employees in Europe are honing their skills in retreading as well as being trained in customer care and fleet support with all Vipal tools.
Vipal holds a team of technicians to meet the authorised network in South America and Brazil and from 2014 is extending these services to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, in order to meet the requirements of each market.
Two of these employees are located in the Hamburg branch of Germany and the third one will be in Valencia, Spain in the subsidiary headquarters. The three new employees will be working throughout the market served by the company’s three European branches, including in the market served by the branch in Slovenia.