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AutoWallis, the integrated automotive and mobility service provider listed on the Prime Market of the Budapest Stock Exchange, says performance strengthened across every segment in the final months of 2025, helping push full-year vehicle sales to a new annual record.
The group reported that its vehicle sales increased significantly last year. In the distribution business unit, sales increased by nearly 7% year-on-year. AutoWallis attributes the results to a combination of acquisitions closed in 2024 and organic growth, with the final quarter described as particularly strong across the company’s operating footprint.
The company said both its distribution and retail business units achieved record fourth-quarter vehicle sales, and that the late-year acceleration also helped set a new annual record for the group.
Overall, AutoWallis sold 11.7% more vehicles in 2025 than in the previous year, reaching 54,046 units. While the group framed last year as one of broad-based expansion, it also highlighted how individual brands and markets contributed unevenly to the final outcome.
AutoWallis said its distribution business unit stepped up the pace in the final three months of 2025 after a more subdued showing earlier in the year, and pointed to the Opel brand as the primary driver behind the late surge. In Q4, the business unit sold 10,748 vehicles, which was 1,797 more than in the same period of the previous year. On a full-year basis, distribution volumes were 2,476 units higher than in 2024, representing a 6.8% increase.
The company emphasized that the year-end rebound looks particularly favorable given what had gone before: a 3.7% shortfall had still been recorded in the wholesale business in H1 2025. The second-half improvement, it said, was mainly driven by the Opel brand’s performance, which was especially strong in Croatia. AutoWallis said it sold an additional 2,108 Opel units overall. The Croatian market alone accounted for an additional 2,487 units.
The launch of the Nissan brand in Romania, which delivered 843 units, was also a contributory factor. However, AutoWallis said performance was negatively affected by weaker sales for the KGM brand (formerly Ssangyong), which sold 883 fewer units than in 2024.
AutoWallis described the retail business unit as the main engine of sales growth in 2025. The company said new-vehicle retail sales rose 20.8% to 11,637 units, while used-vehicle retail sales jumped 46.4% to 3,737 units.
It linked that performance primarily to the Czech acquisitions closed in 2024, specifically the three BMW dealerships of NC Auto (Stratos) and the acquisition of the Milan Král Group. The company also pointed to the Budapest dealership, which opened in the fall of 2024, and, to a lesser extent, the Debrecen dealerships, which opened in the fourth quarter of 2025, together adding 2,046 units to the total.
The retail expansion was mirrored in after-sales activity. AutoWallis reported that service hours increased by 41.3% to 310,146 in 2025. It attributed this to the acquisitions as well as service operations linked to the newly opened dealerships.
The figures underline that the group’s success was not limited to unit sales alone, but extended to higher utilization and capacity in service operations, which typically track both a growing installed base and expanded dealership networks.
In mobility services, AutoWallis also reported growth. Within the group’s mobility services business unit, which includes short- and long-term car rental and fleet management activities, the number of rental transactions rose by 6.4% to 400,218.
The number of rental days increased by 18.2% to 239,654, while the group’s average fleet size grew by 5.4% to 4,037 vehicles in 2025. The mobility data suggests rising utilization, with rental days increasing faster than transactions, alongside a larger fleet.
Commenting on the fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 sales data, CEO Gábor Ormosy said that, in addition to organic growth, the 2025 performance of AutoWallis, which now represents 30 brands in 17 countries across the region, was significantly supported by the acquisitions closed in 2024 and business developments last year.
Ormosy also flagged that brand performance was mixed over the past two years, pointing to “Opel’s temporary decline, followed by a strong recovery at the end of last year, and KGM’s decline last year.”
Even so, he argued that the 12% annual sales growth supports the group’s strategic approach, demonstrating the value of a diversified model as AutoWallis remains on an upward trajectory despite temporary setbacks.
This article was first published in the Budapest Business Journal print issue of February 13, 2026.
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