City Auction Group is strengthening its LCV management team with the appointment of Sam Magee.

He will lead the inaugural weekly sale programme every Thursday from 28 March offering vehicles through the lane for the fleet, lease and corporate vendor business.

Magee has over 17 years within the auction remarketing industry having worked previously for Manheim as a field base group auctioneer for 7 years and prior to that as an account executive at BCA.  

At Manheim, Magee was responsible for servicing and hosting the auctions from the rostrums physically, to post pandemic digital auctions, and then the return to physical sales across the UK network.

Magee stated: “City Auction Group has experienced enormous growth during the last three years and is led by a dynamic senior management team Michael Tomalin and Darren Betteridge who have aspirations to build a market leading automotive defleet, logistics and remarketing solution to ultimately gain market share by way of customer service excellence.

Michael Tomalin, CEO of City Auction Group commented: “We are delighted that Sam will be joining us to lead the LCV business at a time of huge growth for the group. With a record-breaking start to the year we have high hopes for Sam to expand our LCV business in the UK and spearhead further growth across the group in Northern Ireland."