Bentley has seen sales in 2011 return to the levels of 2007, with sales up by 37 percent over 2010. China is now Bentley’s second biggest market. It doesn’t seem five minutes since Bentley were getting their highly skilled workforce to make furniture to keep them busy, so slow were sales as the recession started to bite. And despite […]
Bentley: Best sales since 2008
Bentley are reporting their best start to sales since 2008, with sales up 20% in the first six months of 2011 to 2978 cars. With all the gloom and doom around, from the Greek economy to public sector strikes to Libya, you’d be forgiven for expecting sales of luxury goods to be terrible. But you’d be wrong. The rich of […]
Bentley sells like Hong Shao Rou in China
Bentley has revealed that it sold 396 cars in China in the first four months of 2011 – a quarter of all Bentleys sold worldwide. In case you’re wondering, Hong Shao Rou is a Chinese dish of cubes of braised pork belly glazed with caramelised sugar and Shaoxing rice wine. It was Chairman Mao’s favourite dish and so, […]
Bentley sales improving – buyers are back
Bentley CEO Franz-Josef Paefgen feels that the sales dip at Bentley is over and that buyers are starting to return to the showroom. The world recession in the motor industry has affected Bentley badly. Very badly. Their sales have dropped to half what they were at the peak a couple of years ago (down to 5,000 cars […]