Unipart is aiming to boost the promotion of its loyalty award scheme for independent garages and bodyshop with the launch of a new Choices catalogue.
Audatex UK boss Paul Tucker received a 17% pay increase last year, as many repairers continue to struggle to break even.
Denso Aftermarket has seen spark plug sales grow 48% following its Japanese Take Away promotion, which ran from March to June.
One of only two female Saab master technicians in the UK is about to leave for Africa to teach car mechanics in a village in The Gambia.
MAM Software has launched an advanced electronic trading package for the aftermarket: Autonet.
Manufacturers are being urged to give greater consideration to the rental market, which can provide business stability amidst a weakening new car market.
Dorking Service Centre has been recognized as one of the most outstanding members of the Bosch Car Service network in the UK.
The Tyre Industry Council has launched a new training award and is seeking nominations.
TMD Friction UK, the brake pad manufacturer whose brands include Pagid and Mintex, has raised £2181 for Ben, the Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund.
Kerridge Automotive Systems has become the first UK dealer management system provider to gain accreditation from the Institute of the Motor Industry.
Designer Vision, the in-car audio-visual entertainment systems specialist, has today announced that the company has agreed to a confidential out of court settlement with Centurion.
Internet solution provider Epyx has launched the 1link Disposal Network, which allows dealers to locate the stock they want from leasing and fleet companies, even before vehicles are defleeted.
Increased turnover and profits at mid-year point are evidence that Inchcape Retail is continuing to successfully buck the UK’s declining new car market.
Development of “buyers’ market” conditions in the new car sector has put pressure on the residuals of nearly new models.
Ford dealers could miss their September sales targets, putting volume bonuses at risk, due to supply disruption caused by industrial action at Ansa Logistics, which moves 300,000 vehicles annually for the carmaker.
Chevrolet retailers can expect much stronger support from General Motors this year after the parent company signed off a range of new initiatives.
South-east dealer group William Jacks has slipped into the red at the mid-year point and revealed it is cutting 10% of its workforce in a drive for savings.
Nissan will reveal its new small car, the NOTE, a five-door hatchback with a sporting flavour, at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show.
Lookers has expanded its Vauxhall network by two to 16 showrooms and added the Chevrolet franchise with the purchase of PLP Motors, a £32m turnover group.
When it comes to new showrooms, it is the vehicle manufacturers who are directing the style and form rather than the architects, says Richard Vardy, property development manager of Reg Vardy plc.
Bath-based accident management company Helphire is to buy car credit hire business Swift Rentacar for £25.2m.
The results of What Car?’s fifth annual used car reliability survey, compiled in association with Warranty Direct, sees Japanese and Korean brands dominate the top 10, with Skoda the highest placed European carmaker at number nine.
EMG Holdings, the East Anglian dealer group, which until this year had solus representation for Ford since 1999, has decided to drop the carmaker’s new car sales franchise at its eight sites.
The new managing director of Mazda has held his first face-to-face talks with dealers within days of taking on the new role.
Motor retailer Eric Williams, whose business is in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, has had his credit licence revoked by the Office of Fair Trading.
Olympian Automotive has signed a deal as main sponsor of Hamptworth Golf & Country Club in Wiltshire.
Four employees of Hendy Group have received long service awards from chairman Brian Hendy and deputy managing director Stephen Hendy.
Snap-On Tools wants to alert garages to a rogue caller contacting workshop owners claiming to be from the company.
Pebley Beach Suzuki Wroughton and Cirencester has been rewarded for being one of Suzuki’s top three dealers.
Patterson Motor Group has made a triple appointment at its new-look Shiremoor dealership in Newcastle.
