Net-A-Tyre: The UK’s Latest Online Tyre Company

Net-A-Tyre (www.netatyre.co.uk) is the UK’s newest online tyre company, established in Scotland by independent garage group D&G Autocare. www.netatyre.co.uk offers customers the chance to buy tyres online and have them fitted where they want at one of the company’s UK wide network of independent fitting agents. No details of exactly how many fitting agents the company has were given in the launch statement. However, Net-A-Tyre did state that it is actively seeking to expand its network.

Net-A-Tyre Manager Stuart Burns: “There are many advantages to becoming a Net-A-Tyre agent, namely that we can generate traffic into the garages who perhaps do not use their services at the moment or have not known about their locations. This will give those garages the chance to turn these new customers into regular visitors. And if there is extra work required in the vehicles outside of their new tyres being fitted, the garages are free to sell that additional work to the customer, which will boost their revenue.”

D&G Autocare, headed up by owners George Simpson and David Hunter, are confident that Net-A-Tyre can make a strong impression in the industry and are already in discussion with a number of businesses about offering a dedicated service.

“We are very excited about Net-A-Tyre which for us is a natural progression from our network of garages. David, myself and Net-A-Tyre Manager Stuart Burns, all have many years’ experience in the autocare industry and excellent contacts with tyre manufacturers. We are now applying this expertise to this new online industry which ultimately makes life easier for the consumer who already sees the internet as a quick and convenient way of buying everything from food to insurance,” George Simpson commented, adding:

The customer pays Net-A-Tyre direct for their tyres and they are then given a time to suit at a local garage convenient to them for fitting. The tyres are not dropped off direct with them and left on their driveway or place of work with them left to find a fitter. There is nothing more to pay when they go to have that fitting carried out, making the service quick and easy.