Lookers
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Car Dealer News 2 JulLookers CEO Mark Raban is positive after overcoming PLC’s ‘perfect storm’
Lookers chief executive Mark Raban has told AM that he is positive about the group’s future after overcoming a “perfect storm” of legacy issues and COVID-19 to report positive 2020 annual financial results.
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Car Dealer News 1 JulLookers eyes future with confidence after publishing 2020 financial results
Lookers has said that it can now “look to the future with confidence” after emerging from the most challenging period in its history.
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Car Dealer News 28 JunLookers delays 2020 financial results publication to FCA's June 30 deadline
Lookers will report its 2020 annual financial results on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) June 30 reporting deadline after announcing a "short delay" in publication.
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Car Dealer News 18 JunVertu follows Lookers in urging shareholders to stay away from AGM
Vertu Motors has followed fellow AM100 car retail PLC Lookers in urging shareholders to stay away from their upcoming AGM after the stalled easing of COVID-19 lockdown measures.
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Car Dealer News 7 JunLookers opens £4.6m new JLR dealership in Bishop’s Stortford
Lookers has opened the doors to its new £4.6 million Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) dealership in Bishop’s Stortford.
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Car Dealer News 7 Jun
Lookers’ Phil White up for re-election as chairman search continues
Lookers has revealed that chairman Phil White will stand for re-election at its AGM as the AM100 PLC’s search for a successor continues.
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Car Dealer News 25 May
Lookers' ‘strong trading momentum’ prompts improved profit forecast
Lookers will return to “normalised reporting” of its annual financial results after renewing its banking facility and reporting continued strong trading momentum the first four months of 2021.
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Latest News 14 May‘Supercharged’ NFDA Drive My Career event to focus on apprentice wellbeing
The health and wellbeing of automotive apprentices will be at the heart of a “Supercharged” free online event hosted by the National Franchised Dealers Association’s (NFDA) Drive My Career campaign.
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Talent & People 7 May8 Questions To...Matt Clay, group qualifications manager, Lookers
Matt Clay, group qualifications manager at AM100 top 10 motor retailer Lookers, outlines the talent opportunity that the "seismic shift" to electrified cars may offer.
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Market Insight 9 Apr‘Cazoo effect’ and showroom reopenings cause car retail's PLCs to rally
Car retail’s impressive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the impending reopening of car showrooms after ‘Lockdown 3’ and the “Cazoo effect” have triggered rallying share prices for the sector’s PLCs.
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Car Dealer News 8 Apr
Lookers sells 44,000 cars in 'Lockdown 3' to finish Q1 ‘ahead of expectations’
Lookers sold over 44,000 new and used cars during a COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ impacted Q1 to finish the period “ahead of expectations”.
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People News 23 MarLookers PLC appoints Chris Whitaker as chief people officer
Lookers PLC has announced the completion of a recent series of senior leadership changes with the appointment of Chris Walker as its new chief people officer.
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Car Dealer News 19 MarMacklin Motors opens new Glasgow Motornation used car and van showroom
Macklin Motors has completed the £1.5 million development of a new Motornation used car and van showroom in Lookers’ former Glasgow Volkswagen Van Centre.
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Car Dealer News 18 Mar
Lookers PLC to defy analysts with ‘small profit’ in 2020 financial results
Lookers has said that it expects to deliver a “small profit” and reduced debt in its 2020 annual financial results – defying analysts’ loss predictions.
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Supplier News 12 Mar
UK's accounting watchdog opens investigation into Deloitte’s Lookers audit
UK accounting watchdog the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has opened an investigation into Deloitte audit of Lookers PLC’s financial statements for 2017 and 2018.
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People News 8 MarLookers appoints former Toyota MD Paul Van der Burgh as a non-exec director
Lookers PLC has appointed former Toyota GB president and managing director Paul Van der Burgh as a non-exec director.
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Car Dealer News 4 MarLookers Northallerton awarded as Volkswagen's top-performing UK car dealer
Volkswagen UK has named Lookers Northallerton as its top-performing UK car dealer during a COVID-hit 2020 trading period.
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Car Dealer News 2 Mar
Lookers avoids sanctions as FCA closes investigation into ‘possible mis-selling’
The FCA has told Lookers does not intend to apply any sanction against the car retail group following the decision to close its investigation into the ‘possible mis-selling’ of regulated products.
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People News 23 FebLookers’ Charles Hurst Group appoints Jeff McCartney as group operations director
Lookers PLC’s Northern Ireland car retail division, Charles Hurst Group, has appointed Jeff McCartney as its new group operations director.
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Car Dealer News 29 Jan
Lookers focuses on recovery after H1 2020 results reveal £50m loss
Lookers has applied to recommence share trading on the London Stock Exchange following publication of interim financial results which revealed a £50 million loss in a COVID-impacted H1, 2020.
