Corporate transformations aren’t much more visual than that: the warehouse that the center of the Sanel Auto Parts family business circle has disappeared and will soon be a parking lot for Chevys.
“They ask me, did we miss the building? The reminiscence of walking into my father’s workplace and Bobthrough and I talked to him. But it was about time. It was not an effective building,” said David Segal, who with his double brother runs the company that was founded through his great-grandfather in 1920. Just by plugging holes in the ceiling, we ran out of funds.
Construction on Manchester Street next to Chevrolet Banks began as a barn for a poultry farm. Sanel’s circle of relatives bought it in the mid-1950s, when Sanel Auto Parts flourished after World War II, and expanded it to its central area. warehouse for portions and equipment as well as their corporate offices.
With uns selected floors and abnormal wall placement, the construction was never the best as a logistics warehouse and the brothers had the idea of modernizing it for a long time. It was a stimulus. NAPA operates in a star-shaped style for logistics, which through exclusive central warehouses.
Sanel was looking to build or buy a new warehouse/office when the brothers had a verbal exchange with some other Concord company in transition, C. This design and ornaments store moved downtown last year, leaving its Old Turnpike Road facility available, so Sanel bought promoting his Manchester Street site to the closure of a car dealership, which wants more parking space.
“It’s wonderful for Company C, wonderful for Banks Chevrolet, wonderful for us,” Segal said.
Sanel NAPA has 47 retail locations in New Hampshire and the 3 adjacent states, and now operates 4-star facilities. The Concord is the largest, with 25 retail establishments.
This is the only transition Sanel NAPA is going through. The immediate problem, of course, is the pandemic.
Sanel NAPA closed its outlets when it hit the lock and switched to street service, however, as car portions were essential services, some competition remained open, Segal said.
“From a commercial point of view, it might not have been the most productive decision, however, for our workers, it was important. His fitness, the fitness of the clients, was important. None of our workers were given coVID’s poor aptitude as a component of our company,” he said. There was no e-book on how to run a business in case of a pandemic. There are things that we can also see if, God forbid, it happens again . . . Now we have to do it, get this business back from our customers. »
Some facets of the auto parts industry have taken a step forward – many others are running in their cars while they are stuck at home – but many have not, as corporations have reduced the use and maintenance of cars in their fleet and paint sales also fell. Even after its opening, Sanel NAPA reduced business hours, Segal said it was only temporary.
On the plus side, the desire to create an online grocery shopping formula in the store helps Sanel NAPA as e-commerce grows.
“Without any promotion on this, it really took off and has become a less difficult way for consumers to do business with us,” he said, adding that he may not believe that being completely online.
“There will be consumers who want anything now, want to come and communicate with someone, make sure they have the right product. They either want to shop in the hallways, or bring the old room and compare it,” Segal said.
In the long run, the car portion industry faces even greater uncertainty about the transition to electric vehicles, which have fewer portions than gasoline vehicles, and autonomous vehicles, which can disrupt the entire personal car ownership system. why Sanel opted for NAPA.
“As the sector consolidates, it needless to say that NAPA will be there. We’ll be there too,” Segal said, but we’re transforming our entire business model. We’re thinking about where we’re going to be in five years. “