Swansway Garages staff turned to their “iconic” Land Rover Defender demonstrator car to tow a fully-loaded car transporter free of snow and ice after it became stranded outside Stafford Land Rover this week.
Swansway Motor Group has reported a 42% decline in pre-tax profits in its 2019 annual financial results after completing a restructure in which it “eradicated” its loss-making car dealerships.
Inchcape has continued its recent string of UK dealership disposals with the sale of its Oldham Volkswagen car franchise to Swansway Garages.
Car retailers across the UK reported that demand from car buyers left pent-up during the COVID-19 lockdown period had resulted in a bumper return to showroom trading on June 1.
A whole range of issues were discussed by some of the industry’s biggest hitters, who pulled no punches about the challenges facing them as they go into 2020.
Merging the online offering and physical experience for customers is a challenge this dealer group is tackling through investment in digital technology.
Buy right, prepare right, sell right. Wrexham Volkswagen’s mantra has seen it rise to the top of the franchised dealer used car crop in this year’s AM Awards.
Car dealers and their manufacturer partners have been highlighting their efforts to recruit the next-generation of automotive sector talent to mark National Apprenticeship Week 2020.
Swansway Group is hoping to take on web-savvy used car supermarkets with a newly-launched Motor Match website offering free provenance checks and independent review content to assist consumer car searches.
Scott Walker, Sales training manager, Swansway on current and future sales training in motor retail
Swansway Motor Group has launched a new in-house training programme, with six new recruits joining its Blackburn and Preston Audi centres.
Swansway Motor Group has reported a 35% increase in its profit before tax in its annual financial results for 2018 – despite a decline in turnover.
Swansway Motor Group is set to invest £3.25 million to expand its Motor Match used car operations into Bolton and Stockport.
A survey of over 100,000 company car drivers has voted Swansway Motor Group as the best fleet dealer group for new vehicle sales in the ExpertEye 2019 awards.
Swansway Motor Group has selected Escalla to provide it with apprentices for its new Digital Marketing Apprenticeship initiative.
Swansway Wrexham Volkswagen wins the 2019 AM Award for Best Dealership
Swansway Group has been named Volkswagen Retail Group of the Year 2018 after its Wrexham and Crewe dealerships were ranked among the brand's five top performing businesses in the UK.
Swansway Group Stafford Land Rover has announced that sales apprentice Molly Taylor has received a perfect 100% score in her final sales apprenticeship exam, and is the “only person to do so”.
Swansway Motor Group has announced that its quarterly donations to charity Circus Starr have gifted over £40,000 since 2016, thanks to an uplift in Motability scheme sales.
Swansway Motor Group has rewarded its graduating apprentices with a 2018 graduation ceremony at which new inductees were welcomed into the car retail business.
