Toyota is piloting a short-term maintenance programme in Norway, Denmark and France that will shorten the trade cycle and give retailers the opportunity of selling the car more often.
Mercedes-Benz insists it is not worried about its poor performance in the latest study of retail networks’ satisfaction.
Jardine Motors Group UK chief executive Eamon Bradley will retire at the end of the year.
Cardiff and Newport Volkswagen is one of the Hot 100 fastest-growing enterprises in Wales.
Suzuki has removed its Wagon R+ and Liana models from its UK model line-up.
Customer loyalty to UK dealers has dropped from 46% in 2005 to 32% this year.
Chevrolet has started piloting a sales staff recruitment and retention initiative that will provide dealers with a pool of qualified candidates and help them to keep new starters.
The owner of the biggest car dealership group in Eastern Europe is in London looking for investors to support a flotation and for senior managers from Britain’s car retail industry to help with the group’s dramatic growth.
Rybrook Holdings has bought Conwy Land Rover and Jaguar for an undisclosed sum in its first partnership with the 4x4 brand.
CV questions to industry high flyers.
Renault-owned Reagroup is to revert back to its former name, Renault Retail Group, at the end of the year.
Vauxhall has launched a Service Centre of Excellence award scheme, aimed at rewarding its top 40 Vauxhall MasterFit centres.
Non-fault accident management company Helphire Group plc has announced its financial results for the 2006 to 2007 financial year, showing a 49% growth in turnover to £290m and a 63% increase in pre-tax profit to £40.3m.
Roy Kishor, automotive analyst and partner at Kroll’s Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Group, told AM he believed Land Rover will increase its focus on its environmental image.
A round up of the latest appointments in the automotive industry.
How much do you like your job? If you are thinking of moving on, what would persuade you to stay? Next month, you will get the chance to have your say on this important topic.
Peugeot will be looking at sales potential, capacity of profit and customer service/CSI when deciding the future shape of its retail network.
System failure at PSA’s UK parts distribution centre left Peugeot and Citroën franchised workshops with severely limited parts supplies for four working days.
Best performing share price in the auto sector so far this year? Volkswagen. And the worst? Mazda. If you had been keeping an eye on industry news it is unlikely that you would have bet on those two extremes.
Which franchises produced the best return on sales in the first half of the year? No prizes for guessing Porsche in first place, but just behind, according to the Trevor Jones composite figures, is Suzuki.
Lifestyle Mazda Horsham has been officially opened by Philip Waring, vice president of Mazda Europe.
Riders Garage Group has appointed Andrew Cocksedge as its franchise manager of its Jaguar division.
Three employees at Pearl, the Essex-based automotive components company, have staged a management buy out.
BEN, the automotive industry charity, is offering places at its evening reception at St James’s Palace on November 14.
Leadership styles are changing, but the general attributes that great leaders possess remain the same – and they are attributes amply exhibited by the AM/Courland Rising Stars finalists.
Regularly trumpeted as the most respected leader in automotive, he’s also the nearest the industry has to a full blown celebrity. At the recent Frankfurt show, during a walkabout, he was constantly approached by people asking for his autograph.
Ford Retail has sold off its nine European dealerships for an undisclosed sum to help it focus on the group’s 55 UK dealerships.
Inchcape Retail has sold its three Maranello Ferrari and Maserati outlets in the latest stage of consolidation of its UK dealerships.
Carter & Carter has suspended trading of its shares pending clarification of its financial position.
Lookers has bought Dutton Forshaw Group from Lloyds TSB Asset Finance Division for £60 million in cash.
