Strategy, business model and value chain
The core business of the Inter Cars Group is the distribution and sale of spare parts. The Group’s offerings include over 5.97 million products, including spare parts for passenger and commercial vehicles, batteries, tyres, oils, as well as parts for motorbikes, agricultural and industrial machinery, garage equipment, accessories for drivers, and products for the marine industry. The Inter Cars Group provides garages with everything they need to repair vehicles: software, training, and financing.
companies of the Inter Cars Group1: Inter Cars S.A.: the parent company of the Group, with its head office in Warsaw. Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2004.
In addition to the parent company, the Group consists of 28 distribution subsidiaries2, as well as:
Responsible for providing comprehensive logistics services related to warehousing and handling of goods for the Inter Cars Group and external companies, operates in Poland, Croatia, Romania and Latvia
Specializes in remanufacturing of automotive parts. The parts remanufactured by Lauber meet the new product standards and come with a two-year warranty.
Operates a garage specializing in the inspection and repair of commercial vehicles (authorised to repair ZF gear boxes). The company is authorised to distribute Ford vehicles and develop a dealership chain for Ford Trucks in Poland and is a dealer of Isuzu vehicles.
Specializes in the distribution of trucks and cargo vans by BYD Trucks, one of the global leaders in the production of zero-emission vehicles.
Specializes in car fleet repairs.
Created to coordinate and integrate all communication and image-building activities of the Inter Cars Group.
Specializes in the production of vehicles, offering, among other things, tippers with aluminium and steel bodies, drop-side, specialised and export semi-trailers, trailers and two-axle trailers. The company also rents specialized vehicles and carries out post-collision repairs.
The Inter Cars Group trades in both new and remanufactured parts, which it primarily supplies to garages.
The Group’s main distribution segments are as follows:
- PKW (parts for passenger cars),
- LKW (parts for trucks),
- Body parts,
- Tyres,
- Batteries,
- Oils
- Garage equipment,
- Accessories,
- Off highway (parts for agro and construction vehicles),
- Moto parts,
- Industry,
- Tuning,
- Marine.
Business strategy
The Inter Cars Group is driven by the scale of its operations and focuses on smaller, specialised business segments.
The primary strategic objective of Inter Cars S.A. is to build shareholder value through the optimal use of available intellectual and material resources and the implementation of development programmes in areas related to the Company’s services. The company’s priorities are as follows:
Focused on the constant development of the assortment, the company constantly introduces new and develops existing assortment lines and adapts them to the market expectations in terms of part quality, prices and technical support from part manufacturers..
At the end of 2024, the Inter Cars Group operated 664 branches, including 246 in Poland. The company provides organizational and logistic knowledge, capital, IT systems, full assortment and its availability, as well as the trademark. The strategic goal is the continuous development of the distribution network built so far and so effectively.
Another element of building Inter Cars’ competitive advantage is the continuous improvement of the supply chain and logistics services. As part of Inter Cars, there is a specially dedicated company ILS sp. z o.o. (ILS), which acts as a specialized logistics entity. Its task is to organize the flow of goods from producers to the subsidiaries of Inter Cars.
Partner programs add value to the product offering, such as workshop equipment programs, training, technical service, development of IT systems to support sales and the continuous development of the Motointegrator Partner workshop network (Q-Service Castrol, Networks of parts manufacturers such as Bosch Car Service, Premio) and Q-Service Truck.
Motointegrator is a platform that helps drivers find a solution to a car problem in a professional workshop, recommended by Inter Cars. We search for and improve working methods in workshops and provide a full service of tools for diagnostics and repairs as well as for vehicle maintenance.
The Inter Cars Group value chain
The Group’s value chain is analysed with regard to all Inter Cars Group companies, their business model and current Business Strategy. The underlying element of the chain are the operational processes used by and among the Group companies – from the delivery of commercial goods to the central warehouse, to their export or distribution to regional warehouses and later to the subsidiaries.
The upper level of the value chain, the so-called upstream, comprises all operations carried out by business partners (suppliers of goods), from sourcing raw materials to manufacturing products and their packaging to transporting them to the Group’s central warehouse.
The lower level of the value chain, the so-called downstream, comprises all activities starting from the delivery of products to a subsidiary, i.e. product sale, to handling the “last mile transport,” i.e. their delivery to the customers, i.e. the garages where the parts are assembled.
- The above-mentioned companies present a comprehensive description of the activities carried out by Inter Cars Group; no exclusion was made to describe only companies accounting for more than 10% of the company’s revenue or companies associated with significant and potentially negative impacts
- The distribution subsidiaries are listed in the Consolidated Annual Report for 2024, in the section Information on Inter Cars S.A., point 7.