The largest local Toyota dealer, Inchcape Motors, closed its second showroom in Bucharest because of low sales recorded in the first months of 2009.
All employees of the showrooms were relocate. “Most of them are now at another center. Such a school has a high capacity to absorb these people and is now working on the ground and directly to the customer,” said Veronica Mircea, marketing director of Toyota.

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