Bay of Plenty Business News - September/October 2020

SPECIAL FEATURE –
CORESTEEL BUILDINGS: TAURANGA MOTOR COMPANY
September/October 2020 BAY OF PLENTY BUSINESS NEWS 15
lows a bit of a lead from what
is happening overseas.”
Jury said the new build had
gone reasonably smoothly.
“Like any build it’s had its
headaches, but we’ve worked
together with Coresteel and
overcome them as they have
come up. Obviously Covid-19
was completely unexpected.
We just all worked together on
that and came through it very
well. I’m really proud of the
final result.”
Strong new vehicles
sales post lockdown
Jury said that Tauranga had
experienced strong new vehicle
sales subsequent to the L4
lockdown.
“We are quite confident at
this point that our brands will
do well in the market,” he said.
The company’s brands have
been strong performers, with
for example, Kia currently
number one in the Tauranga
market for passenger vehicle
and SUV sales.
Jury said he thought there
were a number of reasons
for the uptick in sales. They
included the fact that many
customers who had put away
money for overseas travel,
were no long using it for that
purpose. “There’s also a desire
if you are going to spend more
Plan well and
everything else
follows.”
– Simon Eireling
time travelling within New
Zealand then you’re probably
going to want to do it in a quality
car,” said Jury.
“If you’re not going to be
flying, you’re going to tend to
look for a good safe car that
isn’t going to let you down,”
he said. “People are upgrading
their cars because they’re
going to be using their cars
more. They are looking at their
car as something they need
to have functioning well for
them.”
Jury also noted that there
had been an upswing in financing,
with interest rates at historic
lows.
“In the Covid 19 environment
it is impossible to be 100
percent sure what will happen,”
he said.
“But we have a high degree
of confidence in our brands,
which have proven to be resilient
and we have quite a bit of
good news ahead in terms of
new models coming.”
CORESTEEL – INNOVATIVE
BUILDING TO LAST
Coresteel Buildings is a New Zealand-owned
and operated company,
with 25 locally-owned
franchises reaching from Cape Reinga
to Bluff.
The Barn Company was purchased
by Donovan Group NZ Ltd in 2010 and
rebranded as Coresteel Buildings three
years later to reflect the new vision for
the company as a leader in the commercial
and industrial steel building
industry.
Coresteel builds strong, spacious,
long-lasting industrial buildings that it
says are made possible by its ability to
manufacture substantially larger steel
sections than anyone else in New Zealand.
These larger sections, combined
with Coresteel’s exclusive Bracketless
Portal and Tapered Box Beam systems,
allows for a vast interior space with no
interfering centre poles or braces, enabling
large industrial-sized vehicles
and machinery to move in and out of
the building with ease.
Coresteel customers have constructed
industrial steel buildings to be
used as factories, workshops, truck testing
stations, product storage, as warehousing
and for timber milling.
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