Gary Elliott, director of sales and marketing at the Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF), will resign at the end of December after nearly two years in the role.

He had been brought in to develop and implement an extensive relaunch of the RMIF's marketing, recruitment and communications programmes.

Kevin Waterman, RMIF Interim Managing Director, added: “Elliott has made a tremendous contribution to the RMIF and its activities, particularly with respect to member communications - our relaunched website has more than doubled its visitors in six months. We wish him well in his future roles.”