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Under the Radar: Inchcape on tapping ‘enormous’ potential in Indonesia through partnership with GWM, rise in electrification and Chinese OEMs and its growth plans in Asia Pacific
Today we’re going to talk about the company that distributes your Toyota and Suzuki cars! While known as an automotive distributor, our guest Inchcape was started in 1847 when two merchants from Scotland formed a general merchanting partnership. By the next few decades, the firm became one of the early adopters of the internal combustion engine transport revolution, as well as one of the first importers of motorcars into Asia. Its modern presence in Asia Pacific started in 1967 with the acquisition of Borneo Motors, a company founded in 1925 to distribute vehicles in Singapore. Since then…
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