Credit hire and accident management group Helphire is fighting its way towards profit, according to its 2012 trading year results.
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Crewe-based dealer network Swansway Group has generated £250,000 of additional profit by using its customer relationship management system to target the right customers.
The £9.4 billion car insurance market has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading because of concerns the structure of the market was making costs and premiums unnecessarily high.
Honda UK's new British built CR-V, on sale from next month, will be priced from £21,395 on-the-road for the entry level 2.0 i-VTEC manual S grade 2WD model to £30,995 for the top of the range 2.2 i-DTEC EX AWD with manual transmission.
Motoring.co.uk, the new car enquiry consumer website, is launching a new email marketing service supported by a reporting suite, after six month testing.
As long as there is over-supply and high paying volume incentives there will be pre-registration.
Wessex Garages has developed a loyalty club as part of its customer engagement strategy.
The UK’s motor auction and remarketing sector is the most advanced in Europe.
European press has reported that “three in every 10 new vehicles in Germany, including luxury BMWs, are sold not to the customer, but to car- makers and their dealers”.
With gross profit margins which are almost a fifth above the network’s top 10% of performers for used car sales, Essex dealership Grants Seat is a success story.
Europe is the next frontier for Chevrolet as it builds its global presence, says dealer development vice president Jim Bunnell.
Cambria Automobiles' shareholders have today given their approval to its directors for a share buy back.
The new F-Type needs to do for Jaguar what the Range Rover Evoque has done for Land Rover, says the head of sales and marketing for the two brands, Phil Popham.
The UK is a shining light in an otherwise bleak European car market, according to Vauxhall chairman and managing director Duncan Aldred.
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Kia is making no secret of the fact that the sportily styled new three-door Pro Cee'd, revealed today in Paris, is merely a foretaste of something even more exciting to come.
Mitsubishi, whose last launch was the ASX two years ago, will have three new models to launch next year.
There's no hiding the importance that General Motors (Vauxhall in the UK and Opel in Europe) is giving to its new small car, the Adam.
Suzuki has confirmed that its S-Cross mid-sized crossover concept will launch as a production version next year.
Honda has confirmed pricing and specification for the new British built CR-V which will be landing in dealerships in October.
Ford is axing 275 managerial staff in the UK.
Pontypridd-based Vauxhall and Hyundai dealer Hutchings has launched its new website with what is believed to be the UK’s first ‘fully configurable’ finance calculator.
Seat has unveiled its new brand logo at the Paris Motor Show on its next-generation Leon.
Caffyns has been named the South East Apprenticeship Employer of the Year 2012 in the large employer category.
Wessex Garages managing director Keith Brock is moving banks to increase his dealer group’s working capital after its previous bank was unhelpful with funding for its expansion plans.
The European Commission (EC) has highlighted certain areas of new block exemption regulations (BER) which could aid UK dealers to absorb more aftersales work.
Ford is looking to cut jobs and production at European factories to right size the brand for declining demand.
Peugeot will be limiting the UK allocation of the 208 GTI to just 29 examples when it goes on sale in May next year.
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