Senwes Scenario December 2016 / January 2017 | Page 19

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A fleet of 39 John Deere
tractors on one farm!

A John Deere and Senwes
Equipment customer for life
39 John Deere Tractors at Agrivan Farming
THE SOUND OF 39
TRACTORS ROARING
ON A POTATO FARM
WILL HAVE YOU IN AWE.
THIS IS WHAT SENWES
SCENARIO EXPERIENCED
WHEN WE VISITED
AGRIVAN FARMING NEAR
CHRISTIANA.
AUBREY KRUGER

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hole goods marketer at
the Hinterland branch
in Hoopstad, Kwek Dietrichsen,
sold 33 of the tractors in this fleet
of John Deeres to the owner, Ian
Easby, and his partner, Werner du

Plessis.
Werner parked the 33 tractors
sold to him by Kwek in a half
moon-formation, which included
3 x 7200R models, 2 x 7210R,
9 x 6125M, 14 x 5076E and 5 x
5303 models, as well as a further
6 John Deeres forming part of the
fleet - very impressive.
PRAISE FOR KWEK
Agrivan Farming bought the 33
tractors from Kwek from 2013
to 2016 and although Kwek is
humble, Werner and the branch
manager at the Hinterland branch
in Hoopstad, Jaco van Graan,
are full of praise for Kwek. Jaco
says that Kwek’s name is often
mentioned when it comes to tractor sales. “This is a unit record,
particularly in this area. Over the
past four years we have not had
Whole goods
marketer at the
Hinterland branch
in Hoopstad, Kwek
Dietrichsen, and
partner of Agrivan
Farming, Werner
du Plessis shake
hands after Kwek
sold 33 of the
fleet’s John Deeres
to them.

a lot of rain and, taking this into
account, Kwek still manages to
sell a lot of tractors. He sells tractors every month - in September
he sold tractors to the value of
approximately R8 million. He
does not only have customers, he
has friends. This is what makes
him so efficient.”
Kwek insists that this particular
customer is serviced in the same
way as any other customer. “It
is all about after-sales service.
Although we often communicate
telephonically, it is the relationship
that matters,” Kwek says. He has
been working at Senwes since
1999.
What makes him good is that
he knows the whole industry.
He was spare parts sales clerk in
Wesselsbron, then spare parts
manager in Hoopstad as from 3
May 2005 - the day on which
they opened. He has been whole
goods marketer in town since
2008.
According to Werner, Kwek
gave a quotation for one tractor
- it started with a 7200 and after
that they started buying in bulk
and they replace their fleet every
four years.
Jaco is very happy with Kwek
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