Alba Diagnostics, the Glenrothe based brake fluid tester manufacturer, has appointed Graham Burns as UK sales manager.
Network Automotive has launched a new training programme to help dealer staff generate more sales by forging closer relationships with local business users.
Former Chrysler Group UK boss Simon Elliott is returning to the role following the sudden exit of current managing director Peter Lambert this week.
SMMT has announced that Paul Everitt will be its new chief executive. He will take over from Chris Macgowan on January 2, 2008.
Oxford-based Hartwell Group has registered its female employees up to a new Government initiative to improve the skills and career opportunities for women employed in traditionally ‘male-dominated’ professions.
The Right to Repair Campaign (R2RC), a scheme aiming to safeguard consumer choice and effective competition in the market for replacement parts, tools and equipment, servicing was officially launched in London this morning.
The Retail Motor Industry Federation has relaunched its quality control scheme for bodyshops as a stepping stone to the British Standards Institute (BSI) PAS 125 Kitemark.
It just so happens that I'd booked the car in for a service, so I went down to my local dealer on they way back from work. They gave me a number for a reliable tow bloke and said
Lookers has completed its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Dutton Forshaw Group, the motor retail division of Lloyds TSB Asset Finance Division for £53 million.
Solent Motor Group’s business manager, Andy Fenner, is the first dealer employee to gain the Finance & Leasing Association’s specialist automotive finance (SAF) certificate of competence.
Investigations into investigations sound like just the sort of madness civil servants would condone.
Here’s the proof that Ford is following up its slinky Verve concept car with a new, more stylish supermini. The Fiesta will be replaced next year by this new three- and five-door hatchback.
Gary Arthur, a technician at Specialist Cars Volkswagen in Aberdeen, has won the manufacturer’s UK final for its service qualification world championships.
Sales in September was the dog that didn’t bark. Everyone had been expecting a downturn as the UK economy weakened, but registrations actually grew by 1.3% for the month and 2.0% year-to-date.
BMW’s 1 Series coupe will go on sale on November 24 as the ‘halo’ model in the line-up.
MSX International has bought Actuate Business Solutions, based in Fleet, Hampshire for an undisclosed sum.
National Car Rental and ALD Automotive have agreed to supply cars to BEN, the automotive industry charity.
The UK has the highest proportion of debt related to personal income in the developed world, reaching 164% in 2006 – in other words, as a nation, we are in the red.
Has bubble burst for car supermarkets?
A new high-level report from Professor Peter Cooke, KPMG professor at the University of Buckingham, suggests that retailers should adopt new strategies to meet the needs of a growing market – the family fleet.
BSI Product Services has launched an associate consultant programme (ACP), designed to help bodyshops meet the Thatcham BSI Kitemark standard.
Audatex is gathering information from manufacturers to introduce a graphics update which will highlight the use of boron steel in modern vehicle construction.
Allianz is proposing an extension of its recycled parts programme, which would offer owners of vehicles less than five years old the chance to use recycled parts in their repair for the first time.
Nationwide Accident Repair Services has continued its expansion plans, acquiring the Autobodies bodyshop in Matlock and appointing a new Business Services Division to provide additional network support.
Support is finally building behind the BSI/Thatcham Kitemark for bodyshops, with two of the largest UK motor insurers stipulating it for their approved repairers.
Volkswagen has launched a price-match campaign until the end of the year, which it hopes will attract lapsed retail customers back into the franchised network for services.
Nissan is amending “misleading” advice given to a customer during a warranty wrangle, after intervention by the Automotive Distribution Federation.
Kwik-Fit is to offer windscreen repairs at all of its 670 workshops by the end of the year.
Essex-based automotive components and accessory supplier Pearl has changed hands after 35 years under the control of founder Michael Pearlman, following the completion of a management buyout by three of its long-standing employees.
Federal-Mogul Aftermarket UK Ltd has promoted UK national accounts manager Mark Page to regional director for UK and Ireland.
