SMA Vehicle Remarketing  has opened its first centre in Northern Ireland, 30 minutes away from Belfast.

The new centre will create 40 jobs and staff from across the SMA team will support and train the new recruits.

Group managing director Bob Anderson said: “In just six weeks from the decision to invest in Northern Ireland with the help and support of the local community, whom I would like to thank, we have opened for business and I could not have been prouder of the success achieved by the new team today, it bodes well for our future here.”

The majority of cars at SMA’s first Northern Irish auction sold out and the next is due to be held on September 20, with weekly auctions planned to be introduced on each Monday.