Macklin Motors and Bristol Street Motors have struck high-profile sponsorpship deals with the Glasgow Rocks basketball team and a virtual W Series car racing team.
Jonathan Gravell has been given the 2021 Terry Davis Automotive Award from the Welsh Motoring Writers.
Car retail bosses from TrustFord and Waylands Automotive have said that their workforce and business benefited from having their “name in lights” with AM Awards wins.
Eight commercial retail sites operated by UK Mercedes-Benz dealership Rygor are expected to beenfit from £95,000 annual savings after switching to the latest LED lighting systems.
Ancaster Group has opened its seventh Nissan dealership in a new showroom facility created from Robins & Day’s former Vauxhall dealership at Heathrow.
A quarter (25%) of UK car dealers have emerged from the festive break with staff absence of over 15% as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continued to grow cases, an AM poll has shown.
Lookers chief executive Mark Raban has revealed that car retail PLC expects to publish record annual profits after an “exceptional” 2021 trading performance.
Vantage Motor Group has started the New Year by formalising new terms of employments for its workforce, including a five-day working week, a “no late nights” promise and up to £25,000 basic salary.
Former Paddy Power and Lastminute.com tech expert Edgardo Savoy has joined the “fiercely ambitious” team at online car retailer Carzam as chief technology officer.
SsangYong Motors UK has opened 16 new dealerships in the last year, including 14 ex-Mitsubishi sites, and plans further expansion in 2022.
Inchcape has secured planning permission for a new Dual Arch Concept Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) dealership in Norwich.
Supercar and luxury vehicle retailer HR Owen has reported a seven-fold rise in pre-tax profits in its 2020/21 annual financial results.
Vertu Motors has recruited Auto Trader franchise brand director Chris Penny as its new group strategic projects director.
After what has been described as a “topsy turvey” 2021, with trading challenges leading to record profits for many businesses, AM looks back at its top 10 most-read stories.
Analysis by Driver Power's Shopper Survey has found consumers criticisms of dealership staff account for three out of four areas in which their expectations were not met.
Alan Day Group managing director Paul Tanner is battling for the Christmas number one spot this year, with his celebrity-backed charity single Lonely Christmas Day.
Vertu Motors has acquired a site for a new Bristol Street Motors MotorNation used car dealership business in Stockton, Teeside.
Rising cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 are exposing anti-vaxxers as the car retail sector’s biggest business disruptor, it has been claimed.
Riverside Motors Group has completed the multi-million pound, nine-month project to upgrade its Volvo Car UK dealership in Doncaster.
Arnold Clark has secured title sponsorship of a new international women’s football tournament set to feature the top 10 teams from across the globe.
Mercedes-Benz has reached an agency model agreement with its retailers which will lead to the introduction of the new retail framework in the UK from 2023.
TMS Motor Group is planning on making its “largest investment to date” with the £10 million development of a new Kia and Volvo franchised car dealership in Leicester.
Citygate Automotive has introduced Škoda car sales to Europe’s largest Volkswagen car dealership as part of a £2 million makeover of Volkswagen West London.
EMG Motor Group has added its first MG Motor UK car franchise with the opening of a new dealership at its former Mitsubishi business in Ipswich
Keyloop has continued its strategy “to build, to buy and to partner” its way to growth with the acquisition of Peter Vardy’s online car retail software provider SilverBullet.
