Thursday, August 01, 2024

Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided the offices of Harley-Davidson Japan, a subsidiary of Harley-Davidson, Incorporated, to investigate allegations of excessive sales quotas on contract dealerships.

According to multiple Japanese news reports, sources allege that H-D Japan began setting unrealistically high sales quotas around 2020-2021. Dealerships under contract were then allegedly threatened with not having their contracts renewed if they did not meet these high sales quotas. 

This, in turn, left dealers no choice but to buy bikes themselves in order to meet the quotas. In some cases, the allegations say, this included models that they did not want or could not justify being purchased and sold in their areas.

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