February 28th 2023:  McElligotts Tralee Ltd. based on the Listowel Road won an award in the inaugural Kia European Dealer of the Year Awards. These new  prestigious awards are given exclusively to the best Kia dealers across Europe, as part of Kia’s distinctive global dealer excellence recognition programme. Dealers are recognised for the previous year’s performance in delivering outstanding standards, customer service, customer facilities, staff training and development, sales performance and local market share. McElligotts of Tralee are  among just 28 European recipients from 1,640 dealerships and the only Irish Dealer to receive the accreditation.

Acknowledging the award, Declan O’Hara, Manging Director of McElligotts commented “McElligotts have been in business in Kerry since 1870 and has always had a reputation for customer service second to none.  This award is testament to this ongoing culture here at McElligotts and  I would like to thank all our team for their hard work and dedication to our customers.“ Congratulating the team at McElligotts Ronan Flood, Managing Director at Kia Ireland added “This new award from Kia recognises outstanding achievement is all areas of business and not just sales. To win this award, a dealer must also be successful in aftersales, customer satisfaction and dealer standards. Declan, Patrick and all the team at McElligotts have worked extremely hard to achieve this award and are fully deserving of this recognition.

Kia finished 2022 as Irelands fourth best-selling car brand and offer nine models including Picanto, Rio, Stonic, Ceed, XCeed, Niro, Sportage, Sorento and EV6, which was voted Irish and European car of the year in 2022 also.  For more on see mce.ie and kia.com.

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Front(L-R):  Declan O’Hara, Manging Director, McElligotts. Ronan Flood, Managing Director, Kia Ireland.  Back (L-R):  Colin Swan, Head of Sales, Kia Ireland. Darren Byrne, Aftersales Regional Manager, Kia Ireland, Patrick McElligott, Director, McElligotts. David Murphy, Head of Aftersales, Kia Ireland. Adam Fogarty, Head of Network Development, Kia Ireland.