Auto Gewerbe Verband Schweiz (AGVS)

The Swiss Auto Trade Association (AGVS) pursues a clear strategy to achieve the long-term goals defined in its vision.

The AGVS expresses its long-term goals and ambitions in its vision. To achieve these, the AGVS has defined a clear strategy. With its mission statement, the association offers its representatives a guide for their work and conduct. The vision, strategy, and mission statement help the association to fulfill its tasks effectively and efficiently and to represent the interests of Swiss garage owners effectively.

Our vision

The vision represents our long-term goal and expresses our ambitions:

 

• AGVS garage owners are the competent partners for all matters relating to comprehensive mobility solutions for private transport.
• Members use the AGVS brand out of conviction. The AGVS brand stands for high quality and customer-friendly services.

Our strategy

The strategy shows the direction in which the goals are to be achieved and the framework within which this is to happen:

 

• The AGVS organization is consistently focused on its core competencies of industry representation, services, and vocational training.
• As a leading and responsible industry and professional association, the AGVS is committed to creating optimal conditions for the benefit of its members.
• The AGVS sets high quality standards for itself, its members, and its partners.
• The AGVS stands for free enterprise.
• The AGVS ensures that its members recognize the challenges and opportunities in the market, in technology, in digitalization, and in process optimization in a timely manner.
• Together with its members, the AGVS promotes automotive professions and strives to achieve a balanced supply of skilled workers.
• The AGVS is committed to ensuring that mobility develops in harmony with the environment as far as possible and supports its members with modern services.
• The AGVS uses modern and appropriate platforms to communicate with its stakeholders.
• Proximity to members and their employees is crucial for successfully representing their interests. To ensure this, it involves the sections and expert committees in the decision-making processes.
• In order to exploit synergies and increase its impact, the AGVS seeks to collaborate with other associations and organizations.
• The economic performance of the AGVS is ensured in the long term by membership fees, services, and solidarity contributions.
• In order to represent the interests and concerns of its members credibly and effectively, the AGVS and its sections maintain a strong political network and constructive cooperation with the authorities at national and regional level.

 

Our mission statement

The mission statement serves as a guide for the work and conduct of our association's representatives:

 

Corporate purpose
As an industry and professional organization, the AGVS promotes and represents all companies operating in the individual mobility market that maintain a customer focus based on quality, safety, ecology, and fairness.

Members and their employees
The motivation for membership in the AGVS is access to advanced services, training and continuing education opportunities, and a commitment to common interests.

By joining the AGVS, members recognize that overarching industry interests are better served collectively and that the well-being of all members takes precedence over the well-being of individual members.

AGVS members work to promote a positive and recognized image of the industry in the Swiss economy, among authorities, in politics, and among the general public.

The AGVS, together with its members and their employees, forms a win-win community.

Employees at the AGVS office and in the sections
Teamwork, transparency, loyalty, fairness, and motivation characterize the corporate culture. The AGVS is committed to promoting the qualitative development of the decision-making and action-taking skills of all employees.

Services that benefit members are a priority.

The employees of the AGVS sections and the AGVS office see themselves as a team, cultivate cooperation, and strive for synergies.

Communication
The AGVS promotes dialogue and communicates actively, appropriately, transparently, and honestly. Its communication aims to convey its quality standards and thus strengthen the image of the industry as a whole. The "AGVS" brand distinguishes its members.

Relationship with our members' customers
The AGVS supports and strengthens its members in providing professional and fair service to their customers. The focus is on quality, ecology, safety, services, and advice.

Finances
The AGVS manages its financial resources carefully and is committed to long-term value creation for the benefit of its members.