The manufacturer-car dealer relationship is stable and largely positive, despite 2007’s variable trading climate, according to the latest Dealer Attitude Survey from the RMI National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA).
North-west car retailer Halliwell Jones Group has acquired Premier Cars for an undisclosed sum.
HR Owen is close to agreeing a deal to sell its BMW and Mini dealerships in London and south-east England.
Dealers have been criticised by another Which? survey which shows sales executives’ lack of knowledge about the cars they are selling.
Ford has named its apprentices of the year during a ceremony at Henry Ford College.
Lookers pushed aside all the concern that the City has developed about car retailing over the last few weeks, and announced results that were better than analysts were forecasting.
Motorpoint has finished the £100,000 refurbishment of its Newport site in South Wales.
HR Owen has confirmed that it has received an indicative offer for the company from an external party.
Trade-to-trade stock exchange site stockemails.co.uk has introduced a free service aimed at generating sales leads for its subscribed dealers.
Carter & Carter has bought a motor industry training business in Northern Ireland, and hopes to tap into the province’s automotive skills requirements.
Subaru's WRX version of its new hatchback style Impreza will be priced over £1,000 less than the previous model.
August registrations fell slightly by 0.4% to 77,649 units, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Ford and Vauxhall abandoned the coupé sector long ago and other mass-market two-doors such as the Peugeot 407 Coupé have crept up in price, leaving the Korean contender to reap in sales at quite a lick.
Who do you think this quote comes from? “There are so many egomaniacs in the German automotive industry who would sooner put pseudo race cars onto the road than take a leading role in developing new environmentally-friendly technologies.”
In a recent case (Penwell Publishing (UK) Ltd v Ornstien et al) the question of ownership of email contact lists was argued.
Just to force home the fact that a time limit is a time limit. In the case of Besley v National Grid an employee submitted a claim just 88 seconds after midnight on the last day of the three month time limit, electronically, and it was held to be out of time!
In Sage v Bacco the Employment Appeal Tribunal gave the decision that parties should not rely on internet print outs of cases.
Employees working on roadside recover / repair are particularly at risk from other road users. It is estimated there could be up to ten deaths per year for this particular activity.
Trading Standards Officers and “Which” investigators continue their campaign of putting cars with induced faults into garages to see if the faults are found.
There is a little used but often very effective device for recovering a liquidated debt, that is one which is indisputable in amount, such as a bounced cheque, which can sometimes be employed to avoid the often long process of County Court or High Court proceedings.
An interesting question was posed to us recently by a client about the issue of culpability of a delivery/collection driver.
One particular part relating to manual records created before 24th October 1998 is finally brought into the full requirements of the Data Protection Act.
Under the DPA principles of fair processing such collectors of information should make clear.
Although not a matter of our normal business content we felt clients may like to be aware of the requirements of local authorities collecting information for the Electoral Roll.
Asked to describe Benfield’s attitude towards future growth and expansion, chief executive Mark Squires relates the tale of the hare and tortoise.
The Right To Repair Campaign (R2RC), which aims to help independent repairers across Europe compete with franchised workshops, is appealing for support from the UK’s aftermarket sector.
Under Volkswagen’s ownership Bentley may have re-invented itself but it hasn’t forgotten the aftermarket needs of its older models.
Euro Car Parts has added three outlets to its national network in the last few weeks, bringing its number of sales points to 56.
Mercedes-Benz South West has appointed Mark Archibald to head up its corporate sales department.
Volvo will unveil its ReCharge plug-in hybrid concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week.
