Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 18:21
Gronk,
I understand the feeling, but Australia id 22 million people in NSW there are only 480,000 registered 4WD's.
The US have 260 million people, I read somewhere that one Californian outlet sell more than the whole of ARB outlets in Australia.
That doesn't mean that Australians should pay more, but the franchises do not carry stock or order in bulk on big items, they order when you place the order, the US does order in bulk and carry stock which is why they can demand discounts etc.
I can guarantee that if you brought 20 Toyota bullbars you would get a discount. I can guarantee that not even a Toyota dealer could sell 20 x 200's in a month all wanting ARB steel bull bars.
Its not just ARB, look at all other products, DVD's Book's, Electrical equipment, all are cheaper than here in Australia, irrespective of where its built.
ARB have 600 employees in Australia, they have multiple franchises and stockist. Much of the manufacturing is Australian. I would not like to see an Iconic brand move overseas like Blunstone did.
I would prefer to have ARB export $33 million and bring in that cash than import from China and have that debt.
The only overseas production is in Thailand (like TJM) where ARB manage and supervise quality. Not China.
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