Vertu Motors
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Car Dealer News 15 SepVertu Motors completes £2.4m Farnell JLR Bradford upgrade
Vertu Motors has welcomed a new senior leadership team at its Farnell Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) dealership following completion of a £2.4 million makeover of the facility.
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Car Dealer News 3 SepStoneacre owner Richard Teatum invests over £3m in Vertu Motors
Stoneacre Motor Group’s founder and owner Richard Teatum has invested over £3 million in rival car retail group Vertu Motors.
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People News 24 AugRaj Virdee joins Mercedes-Benz of Slough as head of business
Mercedes-Benz of Slough has appointed Raj Virdee as its new head of business.
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Car Dealer News 20 AugVertu Motors reports "robust recovery" following post-lockdown measures
Vertu Motors has delivered an adjusted profit before tax of £7.4 million in July after post-lockdown trading has been “significantly stronger than envisaged”.
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People News 14 AugSamantha Ward appointed as Vansdirect's new operations director
Vertu Motors' Vansdirect online commercial vehicle sales division has appointed Samantha Ward as its new operations director.
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Car Dealer News 12 AugVertu adds Citroen to Bristol Street Motors Ford Worcester dealership
Vertu Motors has brought Citroen under the same roof as its existing Ford franchised in Worcester as part of a £250,000 upgrade of the car dealership’s facilities.
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People News 11 AugVertu Motors names 17-year-old service advisor 'Apprentice of the Year'
Vertu Motors has named 17-year-old Farnell Land Rover Nelson service advisor apprentice Susannah Kendall as the winner of its annual ‘Apprentice of the Year’ awards.
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Car Dealer News 7 AugBristol Street Motors Vauxhall dealership stored car ‘illegally’ for nine years
Bristol Street Motors’ Chingford Vauxhall dealership has been denied planning permission to resurface an area of green belt land for vehicle storage after making use of the land ‘illegally’ for nine years.
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Opinion 16 Jul
Vertu CEO Robert Forrester: 'Get to work if you can' should be Government stance
The time has come for the Government to give a definitive bit of advice, to codify what the Prime Minister could only splutter when he said: “Instead of ‘stay at home if you can’ – I think we should now say, well, ‘go back to work if you can’.”
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Car Dealer News 14 Jul
Vertu Motors to reduce employee headcount by 345 to 'future proof' business
Vertu Motors has taken the decision to cut 345 jobs as it looks to future proof its operations through increased automation in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Market Insight 10 Jul
SMMT data ‘didn’t tell the right story’, says Vertu CEO Robert Forrester
Vertu Motors chief executive Robert Forrester has said that the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) June registrations data “didn’t tell the right story”, insisting that the reality was far more positive.
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Car Dealer News 3 JunVertu Motors announces acquisition intention in 2019 financial results
Vertu Motors declared an intention to add new manufacturer partners as it grows through acquisition in a 2019 results statement following its first two days of showroom trading since the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Car Dealer News 2 Jun
Pent-up demand pays off on June 1 return of showroom car sales
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.
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Car Dealer News 29 MayPatchy support from OEMs as car dealers suffer lockdown
More than 40% of franchised car retailers think manufacturers could be doing more to help, AM's research showed
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Car Dealer News 29 MayVertu Motors 'Haircuts for Heroes' hits 20k fundraising target
Vertu Motors employees across the UK have achieved their fundraising target of £20,000 by donating the cost of their haircuts to NHS charities.
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Car Dealer News 26 MayRobert Forrester, Vertu Motors: ‘We’ll trust customers on unaccompanied test drives’
Vertu Motors chief executive Robert Forrester has told BBC Breakfast how the car retail sector will “trust customers” to take unaccompanied test drives as showroom retailing gets back underway.
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Car Dealer News 7 May
Vertu Motors will ‘capitalise on opportunities’ after COVID-19 lockdown
Vertu Motors’ director have asserted that the group has sufficient liquidity to exit the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown and “capitalise on trading opportunities” in an interim trading statement.
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Market Insight 5 May
Flexible furlough scheme required to tackle re-start’s 'biggest challenge'
Car retailers would benefit from more flexibility from Government’s coronavirus job retention scheme (CRJS) as the financial balance of returning furloughed staff to work becomes businesses' "biggest challenge".
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Car Dealer News 30 Apr
COVID-19 car retail recovery ‘like starting a completely new business’
Planning for a car retail group’s recovery from the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown has been likened to “starting a completely new business with your hands tied behind your back.”
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Market Insight 7 AprVertu Motors trials thermometers as MoT Test centre begins COVID-19 testing
Vertu Motors begun trials of thermometers to test for COVID-19 coronavirus at its showrooms as an MoT centre in Belfast started operations as an official virus test facility today (April 7).
