Official launch

Press Note

27 June 2006

Official launch of CarSalesIndia.com by Sams Auto Trade Ltd (UK)

Sams Auto Trade Ltd a UK based Automobile company officially launched India’s No 1 automobile portal CarSalesIndia.com. CarSalesIndia.com is a compelling and intelligent web portal that provides services to the growing automobile market in India.

In a very special launch ceremony here in the Le Royal Meridian, Mr. Samuel Jeyakumar, Chairman & Director of Sams Auto Trade Ltd UK, and Ms. Preena Sherene Managing Director of Sams Auto Trade (I) Pvt Ltd welcomed over sixty guests to an evening launch ceremony. The guests were shown a presentation on the success and growth strategy of its hugely popular and successful automobile portal CarSalesIndia.com. The guests along with the senior officials and executives thereafter joined for a dinner party.

There are more than 2000 live used/new cars available in the website currently in which more than 1000 cars are from Chennai alone. This presents a big opportunity for car buyers in Chennai to start their search for a car online. Over 90% of all used car dealers in Chennai are registered in CarSalesIndia.com and a few new car dealers have also joined hands to mass market their products, the numbers are growing exponentially every quarter. In Bangalore over 40% of the used car dealers are registered and nearly 500 cars are available online now.

Individual car owners are also welcome to advertise their cars online. It is a simple one step process to advertise cars online, for those who don’t have internet access a telephone line has been set-up, call us at 044-42323282, and we will do the advertising on your behalf. We can also arrange for our executive to take a digital photograph of your car to be advertised in the website. We have received excellent customer feedback on the services and day-by-day the customer base has been growing in thousands.

The website also presents the opportunity to automobile related businesses to advertise via banners on the website. Its pages have a massive reach of over 3 million on average per day. The company has also recorded over 200 million hits so far in its website. Company officials say, there is a great opportunity for automobile businesses to advertise with our website and you are guaranteed to see customers walk into your doorsteps.

CarSalesIndia.com has been available live on the Internet for more than a year. During this time the web portal has been growing steadily, the company had conducted various customer surveys, reviews and trials on various products and services. The customer surveys and reviews were a great success for the company and had gained huge popularity among customers for their unique service offerings and customer centric approach.

The web portal offers world-class services to the Indian automobile industry such as

• Buy or Sell Cars Online – Search for a car or Advertise your car online
  
• Banner Advertising in prime spots of all pages
  
• Dealer Services (Free digital photo capture & executive service)
  
• Email Alerts
  
• Car Pool/Car Share
  
• Online Car Insurance & Loan
  
• Car Voting
  
• Car Reviews
  
• Car Research
  
• Expert Advice
  
  

New/Used Car Advertising via Individuals/Dealers and Banner advertising are on the top of the list services from the company. The company provides high calibre executives to serve dealers. The company executives collect all information on cars and take a digital photo before passing the information to our back office team who take care of advertising online. Since live the company mail box has been bombarded with over 750 mails a day.

For any enquiries Dealers, Individuals and businesses can call our UK or India office
Mr Sam @ 0044-7725-215806 – (UK)
Ms Preena @ 044-42323282 or 9940144034 – (India)

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