KPMG’s restructuring practice has been appointed as administrators to Nissan and Citroen dealership operators Slaters of Abergele Limited, Slaters of Ruthin Limited and Slaters North Wales Car Centre Limited.
Automotive retail businesses will see a “domino effect” of reliance on ‘Legitimate Interest’ to comply with the stringent GDPR, according to MotorVise managing director Fraser Brown.
An all-in-one car subscription service launched by London-based Drover has seen its “mobility as a service” venture given a £5.5m funding boost in a recent funding round.
Thurlby Motors in Lincolnshire has ditched both its Nissan and Vauxhall franchises after it “suffered heavily” in 2016 and 2017 from demands to pre-register to hit increasing targets.
TrustFord chairman and chief executive Stuart Foulds was first to highlight the efforts of the retail groups “fantastic team” after winning the Fleet Dealer of the Year award at the Fleet News Awards.
Land Rover has recognised the best dealerships from with its franchised retail network with the presentation of its annual awards.
The average price of a used car reached its second-highest level on record for remarketing specialist BCA as demand remained high across its 24 auctions centres and online platform during February.
AM has issued a call for discussion papers in readiness for launching a brand new feature at Automotive Management Live 2018: The Vision For The Future seminar.
Coachworks Consulting has promoted Martin Riddell to account director with immediate effect.
A cross-party group of MPs has called for car manufacturers to fund a new Clean Air Act which would “enshrine the right to clean air in UK law”.
An intrepid team of fund-raisers from Lings Honda set to take on the ‘Only the Brave’ charity obstacle course run in support of the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
The Financial Conduct Authority has said that it will continue investigations into the “risk of harm” posed by motor finance, with its final findings expected to be delivered in September.
Arnold Clark has gifted a recently bereaved family a brand new Ford Focus ST-line after its intended recipient passed away ahead of its collection from the Glasgow dealership.
Aston Martin has promoted its director of brand strategy Gerhard Fourie to be director of marketing and brand strategy role in a restructure which also sees Kevin Watters become director of communications.
Aston Barclay has unveiled plans to expand its Westbury auction facility with the creation of a second hall after Wessex Garages and MotoNovo became new vendor customers at the site.
The AA has bought the used car classifieds website VCARS, four years since they formed a partnership which led to the AA Cars brand.
Neil Smith, operations director at Imperial Cars,
Jennings Motor Group's Gateshead Harley-Davidson dealership has won the Harley-Davidson UK and Ireland annual Bar and Shield award.
Pentagon is celebrating after winning the Dealer Group of the Year accolade at the Motability Dealer Awards 2018 for “outstanding service” throughout 2017.
BCA has appointed Greg Taylor as commercial director (corporate) and Matt Bristow as commercial director (OEM) to “strengthen our senior sales team”.
Jardine Motors Group HR director Clare Martin has warned that the issue of automotive skills shortage “will widen” with the increasing demands of technical expertise in dealership workshops.
MotoNovo Finance has celebrated a 94.5-out-of-100 rating average from almost 290,000 car buyers who have rated its funding product.
Hyundai’s dealerships have been assured they still have a major role to play in the future of the brand after it unveiled plans for further digitalisation of both the new car selling process and aftersales.
Marshall Motor Holdings has reported a 19.5% increase in turnover and a 14.4% rise in underlying profit before tax in a set of annual financial results hailed as “excellent” by chief executive Daksh Gupta.
Cap HPI has responded to dealer demand for accurate specification data for part exchange processes with its Spec Check product.
Former Alan Day apprentice Nick Wells has been awarded with Volkswagen's prestigious Gold Pin after working his way up from 16-year-old new starter to the post of general manager.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer vowed to champion “the great British white van driver” with a review of VED rates and brought forward the business rates review in his Spring Statement 2018. In a speech in the Commons which laid out GDP growth and reducing debt levels predicted by the latest OBR reports, the Philip Hammond said that he aimed to “champion business” with the measures. Addressing the house, he said that a review of business rates would now take place in 2021 in a move that would also usher-in “triennial reviews from then on”. He said this came on top of a review of business rates, which resulted from the Autumn Budget, which he claimed would reduce rates for small business by over £10 billion. An £80 million fund was also announced to help small businesses in their recruitment of apprentices in light of the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy last year. Mr Hammond said that the move had come in recognition of the “changes the system represents”. In a move that the chancellor would “help the great British white van driver”, the Chancellor said that a review of VED road tax would look to bring in a reduction in expense for the greenest commercial vehicles. The OBR’s latest predictions for economic growth in the UK were revised up from 1.4% to 1.5% for 2018, with 1.3% growth in 2019 and 2020 before a rise to 1.4% in 2021 and 1.5% in 2022. Paul Johnson, at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, moved quickly to dispel any suggestion that the revised forecast was worthy of celebration, however. In a Tweet posted during the Chancellor’s speech, he said: “Against a long term trend of at least 2% a year growth, after poor growth since 2008, and compared with growth across rest of OECD, these are not encouraging forecasts.”
Arnold Clark will attempt to use a newly-launched promotional vehicle to attract young automotive talent to fill the company's 300 vacancies for new apprentices.
Vertu Motors has delivered recognition to its “huge amount of talented game changers” at its annual CEO Awards.
A CarShop survey aiming to deliver insight into the attitudes of women to the car buying process has found that many are at ease with entering a showroom, but do not like to engage in negotiations.
