Porsche Retail Group has appointed Charles Tennant as its new group general manager. 

He takes over from John Poulson who had worked in the role since January 2009.

Tennant has worked for Porsche Cars Great Britain for the past four years, joining the UK subsidiary of the German sports car manufacturer as network operations manager in 2007.

He said: “I am really looking forward to driving the business forward at our five Porsche Centres that constitute the Porsche Retail Group.

“Porsche is renowned for its class-leading products with benchmark driving dynamics and peerless engineering quality and I’m confident that the retail group offers a customer experience that matches our outstanding product standards.”

Prior to joining Porsche, Tennant worked at BMW UK as national sales manager, as well as in a variety of roles within sales and marketing in the Volkswagen Group.

With senior management experience in the BMW and Mini retail network, Tennant also brings the perspective from the showroom floor to his new role.