Used car values will fall by at least 12% between now and Christmas according to EurotaxGlass’s.
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Dealers can use initiatives to ensure customers see them as an ally in the battle to keep costs down, while also protecting the environment.
Morelli Group has secured an approval to supply paint to bodyshops in Peugeot’s repair network. The distributor is now the carmaker’s preferred distribution partner.
Sapphire Bodyshop boss is vocal in feedback over BSI Kitemark’s gaps in methods.
Improved products and a wider range of repairs have helped increase market to £70m.
The creditors report for Leslie Reeson Assessors, one of the UK’s largest independent assessing engineers firms, shows the Nottinghamshire-based business had £728,000 of outstanding debts when it went into liquidation in January.
DWS Bodyworks has bought a Stratstone Jaguar workshop in Weybridge for an undisclosed sum. It will be split into two and named DWS Weybridge and DWS Brooklands.
Administrators have been called in to bodyshop Tigwell & Williams Coachworks.
Bodyshop network to use automated procurement.
The organisers of this summer’s British International Motor Show have announced that 472,300 people visited the ExCeL-based event, 14% up on 2006’s 415,000 attendance.
Group aims to expand to 15 dealerships, achieving 30% of all Citroën sales in the UK.
The industry is milking the environmental question for all its worth.
Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee says plans for VED rises are a step in the right direction but the tax should be even more punitive to push drivers into the greenest cars.
Dews Motor Group, which marks its centenary next year, opened its first Ford dealership this month, filling an open point in Halifax.
The Nano, the world’s cheapest car, may struggle commercially due to surging raw material costs.
Health and safety is now core to every business, but the risks within motor vehicle repair make it imperative that staff understand how to keep themselves from injury.
Continental has lined up potential investors, as it attempts to fend off a £8.9bn hostile bid from Schaeffler, its privately-owned rival.
Used van values continue to be put under pressure according to data from BCA.
Fuchs Lubricants has appointed ex-Total OEM and marketing manager Richard Barrett as its own UK marketing manager.
Motorists could be paid up to £1,000 to scrap older, more polluting vehicles under plans being considered by the Treasury.
Harwoods Group has run into opposition for its plans to expand its Bentley dealership in Bramshaw, Hampshire.
David Chittenden, a director at Colliers CRE based in Birmingham, is to head the firm’s national automotive and roadside group.
Debra Healy, Digital director, Exchange & Mart.
Fortis Insurance has won best claims initiative at the British Insurance Awards for its Solutions Centres initiative, which reduced repair costs and waiting times and improved customer satisfaction during 2007.
This year has seen an erratic pattern to the values of convertibles, particularly when compared to the gradual price decline for all stock
Signs suggest that the decline in showroom traffic has bottomed out but buyers remain cautious.
Federico Goretti has been brought in to head Chrysler UK.
Sunderland-based Jennings Motor Group has launched a new free initiative to handle customers’ crash or theft enquiries.
BMW Group will miss its 2008 targets this year after it revealed a 43.5% drop in quarterly pre-tax profits to €602 million (£477m) due to worsening market conditions.
