Shaun Wootton has been appointed as Honda’s manager of national franchising, cars.

In his new role, Wootton will work with partners across the firm’s dealer network to look for new car growth. He will also help dealers to improve Honda’s used car business and customer service.

He says: “We have a profitable and growing network, in fact within my first week in the role I had several potential partners approach me asking about representing the Honda brand.”