TEMOT International’s Annual Spring Meeting & Executive Suppliers’ Event, hosted from May 14 - 16 in Barcelona, drew about 450 participants to Catalan’s capital. Around 200 high-level managers from TEMOT Shareholders attended, as well as about 250 business partners and delegates of international Parts Suppliers.
The first day was dedicated to a “Shareholders’ & Suppliers’ Session” under the motto “TEMOT Today & tomorrow”, in which TEMOT’s President and CEO Fotios Katsardis outlined the TEMOT 2025 strategy and gave an outlook on future developments of the market. Two external speakers gave inspiring insights into critical topics: Hartmut Röhl, President of FIGIEFA, spoke in depth about the issue of fair competition in the Automotive Aftermarket and Daniel Trost, CTO from Select AG, introduced SELECT CONNECT and what it means for the digitalization of workshop processes.
The 2nd and 3rd day were entirely devoted to networking: More than 1,750 individual interviews were held to explore new business opportunities and liaise with new business partners, making the event one of the most successful and – from the perspective of the stakeholders – most valuable TEMOT get-togethers ever.
In the evening, TEMOT International invited to its 25 Years Company Anniversary gala dinner, which also included the presentation of the TEMOT 2018 Cooperation Awards. Fotios Katsardis presented the following award categories:
- 25 Years Cooperation Awards;
- Special Product Category Awards;
- Special Aftermarket Contribution Award;
- Founder´s Awards.
And for 2018 the Special Contribution Awards winners are the braking specialist ATE in the category Garage Support; TMD Friction in the category Aftermarket Support; cooling and climate company Nissens in the category Logistics; Dinex in the category Commercial Vehicles; and Schaeffler, Mann + Hummel, Bosch and ZF/TRW in the category Global Supplier.
Comments Fotios Katsardis: “In the past 25 years, TEMOT has grown from a domestic network to a global cooperation, bundling the sourcing power of currently 78 Shareholders and acting as facilitator between Shareholders, Suppliers and Workshops. The fact that so many top-level executives came together for discussion and meetings proves the market relevance of this great network we have built upon trust and reliability, all around the world, together with our partners.” He adds: “We will keep on working to find the best offerings for market demands and challenges of today and tomorrow.”