Bosch, Knorr-Bremse and ZF are to establish a joint venture to provide a central full-service portfolio for commercial vehicle workshops.
The JV will be based outside Munich and will provide a telephone hotline, technical training and information, diagnostics, workshop equipment and quality management.
Starting from the middle of next year, it is initially planned to offer the workshop franchise as an independent brand to multi-brand commercial-vehicle workshops in Germany.
Following this, however, the partners say it will be rolled out in other European countries.
"In the shape of Bosch Car Service and AutoCrew, Bosch already offers two successful full-service concepts in the passenger-car workshop market," explains Robert Hanser, president of the Bosch Automotive Aftermarket division.
"Based on this experience and our expertise in the commercial vehicle industry, we intend to work together with Knorr-Bremse and ZF ... so that workshops that service and repair commercial vehicles can also benefit from these services," he adds.
