Oxfordshire based dealer group Hartwell has acquired Hangreen Limited, the company that operates Sky Ford Hemel Hempstead and Sky Ford Watford, for an undisclosed sum.
The sites will continue to trade under the name Sky Ford.
Hartwell plc, already has a strong partnership with Ford and the acquisition of Hangreen Limited brings its total Ford dealerships to nine.
Kevin Godfrey, managing director, said “The opportunity to purchase two dealerships with excellent reputations, which represent a franchise with whom we have strong links in a territory we know well, was one we seized with both hands."
Background info:
Hangreen Limited was established in 1995 and was a privately owned and operated company. It has two dealerships, in Hemel Hempstead and Watford providing new and used Ford cars and Ford Direct used cars and commercial vehicles.
It also offers car and commercial servicing and repairs, parts - including Formula Ford engine parts - body repairs and is authorised to install Mountune performance upgrades to Ford vehicles.
Sky Ford has won the Ford Chairman’s Award for exceptional customer service five times.
Hartwell is at number 40 in the new AM100, up four places from last year.
Hangreen's locations (green) alongside Hartwell's network (black). Source: Google/AMi
Jeremy has been a journalist for 30 years, 20 of which have been in business-to-business automotive. He was a writer and news editor on AM-sister brand Fleet News for three years before setting up the AM website. For the last five years he has been Bauer B2B’s head of digital helping to manage the digital assets of AM, together with Fleet News, Commercial Fleet, Rail and Smart Transport.
Jeremy - 14/06/2013 12:18
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