Vertu Motors
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Car Dealer News 12 MayVertu Motors to grow scale and ‘big brand’ marketing profile in 2021
Vertu Motors chief executive Robert Forrester has said the AM100 PLC will continue to drive a “big brand” profile through high-profile marketing after adding 30 car retail outlets in 15 months.
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Car Dealer News 10 MayVertu’s Farnell Jaguar Land Rover dealerships to recruit 27 apprentices
Vertu Motors is searching for 27 new apprentices to train for jobs at its Farnell Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) dealerships in Bradford, Leeds, Guiseley, Bolton, Nelson and Chesterfield.
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Car Dealer News 5 MayBristol Street Motors Nottingham Hyundai sponsors BTTC racer Tom Ingram
Vertu Motors has doubled-up its 2021 season support for British Touring Cars Championship (BTCC) racer Tom Ingram with sponsorship from its Bristol Street Motors Hyundai Nottingham dealership.
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Latest News 27 AprHendy Group and Vansdirect land BTCC sponsorships as Cazoo backs the St Leger Stakes
Hendy Group and Vertu Motors’ Vansdirect business will both sponsor British Touring Car Championships (BTCC) drivers in the 2021 season as Cazoo backs the St Leger Stakes in its latest deal.
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Car Dealer News 26 AprVertu Motors achieves EV accreditation at three sites
Vertu Motors has achieved NFDA Electric Vehicle Approved Status (EVA) at three of its sites and expects more to be accredited this year.
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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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Digital Marketing 9 AprBristol Street Motors secures title sponsorship for the Virtual Grand National
Bristol Street Motors will sponsor this year’s Virtual Grand National and Grand National Race of Champions, as part of an exclusive deal.
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Car Dealer News 1 AprVertu Motors signs partnership deals with Yorkshire and Durham cricket clubs
Vertu Motors has signed two-year partnership deals with Yorkshire and Durham County cricket clubs.
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Digital Marketing 30 MarVertu Motors and Macklin Motors renew Formula One sponsorship
Vertu Motors’ Bristol Street Motors and Macklin Motors have renewed its sponsorship of Channel 4's coverage of Formula One.
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Latest News 23 Mar'Over by Easter': 12 months on from car retail’s COVID closures
When Arnold Clark chief executive Eddie Hawthorne openly conceded that he had initially felt the COVID-19 crisis would be “over by Easter”, it was clear that nobody in the sector could have imagined being in lockdown 12 months on.
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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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Acquisitions and deals 15 MarVertu becomes Europe's biggest Honda dealer with Hepworth Huddersfield acquisition
Vertu Motors has “cemented” its position as the biggest Honda retailer in Europe with the acquisition of Hepworth Honda in Huddersfield.
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Car Dealer News 12 MarVertu Motors acquires naming rights to Eagles Community Arena in Newcastle
Vertu Motors has acquired the naming rights to the Eagles Community Arena in Newcastle in a five-year deal.
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Latest News 5 Mar
Vertu Motors CEO Robert Forrester: 'This is not a shift to online car sales'
Vertu Motors chief executive Robert Forrester has insisted that his business is not making a switch to online car sales after a 360% rise in end-to-end digital transactions in 2020.
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Technology 4 MarVertu Motors invests in robot technologies to help ‘improve productivity’
Vertu Motors has invested in robotic process automation (RPA) to help improve productivity across previously manual data entry processing tasks.
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Car Dealer News 1 Mar
Vertu Motors positioned to realise ‘ambitious growth aspirations’ after extraordinary 2020
The Vertu Motors board has said that the AM100 car retail group is positioned to realise “ambitious growth aspirations” after crediting a huge Vertu team effort for a creditable 2020 trading performance.
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Car Dealer News 11 FebVertu Motors moves Kia Nottingham into existing Volkswagen dealership
Vertu Motors is set to relocate its Kia Nottingham dealership into its existing Volkswagen dealership operation in the city as it continues to consolidate its UK retail operations.
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Car Dealer News 4 FebVertu Motors' 2020 profits ‘ahead of forecasts’ after positive COVID-19 lockdown trading
Vertu Motors has reported that it expects its pre-tax profits for the financial year ending February 28, 2021, to exceed analysts’ current £18 million forecasts.
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Car Dealer News 26 JanVertu adds Citroën to Bristol Street Motors Ford Macclesfield dealership
Vertu Motors’ Bristol Street Motors division has seen a Citroen franchise added into its Macclesfield Ford dealership operation as part of a £200,000 redevelopment of the facility.
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People News 22 DecVertu Motors appoints new Vertu Motorcycles division brand director
Vertu Motors has promoted Honda Grantham general manager Mark Goode to the newly-created role of Vertu Motorcycles division brand director following the acquisition of BMW Motorrad Sunderland.
