{"id":851907,"date":"2026-02-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=851907"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:51:27","slug":"chinese-and-indian-car-brands-taking-over-dealerships-across-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/851907\/chinese-and-indian-car-brands-taking-over-dealerships-across-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese and Indian car brands taking over dealerships across South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Super Group has seen improved performance across its dealership network, buoyed by the rise of Indian and Chinese car brands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its interim financial results for the six months ended 31 December 2025, the group said that its South African supply chain and dealership operations underpinned its robust performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group said that its South African dealerships significantly outperformed the broader market, with growth in both new and used vehicle sales reflecting the benefits of a diversified brand portfolio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group’s dealership network also benefited from the early investment in emerging Chinese and Indian brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Revenue performance was supported by a well-diversified portfolio of value and volume brands, together with a vastly expanded representation of emerging Chinese and Indian manufacturers,” it said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The division’s new-car sales volumes from emerging Chinese and Indian brands grew by 102.0% over the prior period and accounted for 29.7% of total new-car sales volumes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the period, Super Group added three Geely dealerships, two Tata Motors and Mahindra dealerships, one GWM dealership, and one Ford dealership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group now runs 28 operations representing emerging Chinese and Indian brands. These brands have boomed in South Africa amid their value-for-money, as many are priced out of European models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South African dealership division saw revenue increase by 12.7% to R6 billion, with operating profit standing at R209.2 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the group’s UK Dealerships have also seen an influx of Chinese brands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group said that the restructuring and consolidation of the UK dealerships, as well as the addition of Chinese brands, have resulted in 50.4% growth in operating profit for the UK business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial results <\/h2>\n\n\n
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Across its entire operations, Super Group saw revenue from continuing operations increase by 7.0% to R22.68 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group’s EBITDA increased by 5.9% to R1.96 billion, and operating profit increased by 8.7% to R1.10 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headline earnings per share from continuing operations were up 28.0% to 155.4 cents, and earnings per share from continuing operations increased by 26.1% to 157.5 cents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, headline earnings from total operations including discontinued operations) decreased by 42.9% to 139.6 cents (December 2024: 244.3 cents). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was due to the profits from the SG Fleet business, sold in April 2025, being included in the prior comparative period’s results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earnings per share for total operations decreased by 85.6% to 23.9 cents (December 2024: 165.7 cents) due to the impairment of AMCO\u2019s carrying value by R382.0 million in the current period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metric<\/th>Current Period<\/th>Comparative Period<\/th>Change (%)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Revenue<\/td>R22.68 billion<\/td>R21.20 billion (Dec 2024*)<\/td>+7.0%<\/td><\/tr>
EBITDA<\/td>R1.96 billion<\/td>R1.85 billion (Dec 2024*)<\/td>+5.9%<\/td><\/tr>
Operating Profit<\/td>R1.10 billion<\/td>R1.01 billion (Dec 2024*)<\/td>+8.7%<\/td><\/tr>
Profit Before Taxation<\/td>R834.0 million<\/td>R668.1 million (Dec 2024*)<\/td>+24.8%<\/td><\/tr>
Headline EPS (continuing operations)<\/td>155.4 cents<\/td>121.4 cents (Dec 2024*)<\/td>+28.0%<\/td><\/tr>
EPS (continuing operations)<\/td>157.5 cents<\/td>124.9 cents (Dec 2024*)<\/td>+26.1%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Super Group is increasingly targeting Chinese and Indian car brands, with new-car sales from these regions doubling in its latest financial results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":851912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[10481,16686,15796,1368,2051],"class_list":["post-851907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-geely","tag-gwm","tag-mahindra","tag-super-group","tag-tata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852229,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851907\/revisions\/852229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}