Car retailers in South Yorkshire have shown resilience with a series of rapid clean-up operations after a month’s rainfall fell in just one day last week – triggering severe flooding throughout the region.
Park’s Motor Group had helped to expand the Automobili Lamborghini UK dealership network with the opening of a new showroom in Leeds.
While car retailers and automotive suppliers are heading to today’s Automotive Management Live expo with the hope of networking face-to-face AM is keen to hear of your experiences of the event on social media.
The Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA) is this week celebrating its two-year anniversary with the appointment of a new board member.
There is now less than 24 hours to go until car retailers, suppliers and top industry experts pack the halls of the NEC in Birmingham for Automotive Management Live 2019.
Endeavour Automotive is set to become the first UK franchisee of Geely’s high-performance Polestar electric vehicle (EV) brand when it opens the doors of a new Polestar Space in London.
Substantial franchised car retail network reductions and restructuring is required if operators are to benefit from a significant increase in the profitability of operators, according to a new report published by the ICDP.
Cargiant owner Geoff Warren has spoken of plans to transform the business’s London headquarters into a specialist electric vehicle (EV) centre.
Renault’s reigning Small Dealership of the Year has celebrated its 50th anniversary with the French car brand at an official celebration event attended by Groupe Renault UK managing director, Vincent Tourette.
TrustFord succeeded in raising over £160,000 for automotive sector benevolent charity Ben by travelling a combined distance of more than 20,000 miles in just 25 hours during the Breakout for Ben 2019 challenge.
Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Hertfordshire franchisee L&L Automotive to open the German premium car brand’s latest pop-up store – at The Maltings Shopping Centre.
Former Perrys Motor Sales general manager David Walker Smith has been awarded £26,752 after successfully claiming unfair dismissal in an employment tribunal concluded in Manchester.
Sandicliffe Motor Group’s Sandicliffe Motor Contracts (SMC) is pulling out of the UK fleet market due to continued pressure on profits and “challenging trading conditions” in the sector.
Hendy Group has claimed the Solent Business Awards’ Company of the Year accolade after judges recognised its profitability, innovation, employment growth and a “near-doubling” of its turnover in 2019.
Lookers has celebrated the history of the Audi brand with a display of Le Mans winning racing cars and classic vehicles at the official VIP opening of its new flagship dealership at Farnborough.
Pendragon has delivered an interim statement to share news of a 57.9% growth in underlying profit before tax as revenues and profits continued to decline amid mass site closures during Q3.
Footage from CCTV cameras has been made public in a bid to help track down an arsonist pictured pouring flammable liquid over several vehicles at a Northumberland car dealership before setting them alight.
SsangYong Motors UK has said that it is “creating a new type of retail offering” to take its products to potential customers inside the M25, where it is currently under-represented by franchisees.
Over 150 TrustFord staff and supply partners have hit the roads of Europe once again in a bid to travel as far as they can by car in 25 hours as part of the Breakout For Ben charity fund-raising challenge.
Stoneacre Motor Group is carrying out a £1 million redevelopment of its iconic Mushroom Garage car retail operation in Rotherham as part of a process which will usher out its Honda and Mitsubishi franchises.
Vertu Motors chief executive Robert Forrester has said that he wishes he could “ban the BBC” among the group’s employees as he bids to block out Brexit negativity to focus on sales process.
Marshall Motor Holdings and Snows Motor Group have added London EV Company (LEVC) retail franchises as the Geely-owned taxi manufacturer increases its UK presence.
Vertu Motors has appointed the former managing director of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in the UK, Simon Elliott, as its new commercial vehicle director.
Vertu Motors chief executive has said that maintaining the car retail group’s strategic “discipline” to achieve growth in turnover and profits during the six month period to August 31, 2019.
Sytner Group will bring 140 jobs to a fast-growing industrial estate in Northampton with the creation of a “flagship” £12m Jaguar Land Rover dealership.
