Lookers will close a further 12 car dealerships and cut its employee headcount by up to 1,500 as part of a restructure plan aiming to make annual savings of £50 million.
Vertu Motors declared an intention to add new manufacturer partners as it grows through acquisition in a 2019 results statement following its first two days of showroom trading since the COVID-19 lockdown.
Vertu Motors employees across the UK have achieved their fundraising target of £20,000 by donating the cost of their haircuts to NHS charities.
Hendy Group has completed the reopening of aftersales operations across its entire South coast operating area - eight weeks after COVID-19 lockdown began.
Vertu Motors’ director have asserted that the group has sufficient liquidity to exit the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown and “capitalise on trading opportunities” in an interim trading statement.
Cambria Automobiles chief executive Mark Lavery has conceded that “over 100 redundancies” are possible within his car retail group when the Government's coronavirus job retention scheme’s (CJRS) furlough period ends.
Cambria Automobiles has reported increased profitability in interim financial results revealing that the AM100 car retail group was performing 'ahead of expectations' prior to the COVID-19 lockdown.
Pendragon has claimed that it is “well-positioned” despite the end of merger talks with fellow AM100 car retail group Lookers which would have created the UK’s largest car retail group.
Inchcape has appointed former Fujitsu director Duncan Tait as its new Group CEO after the departure of Stefan Bomhard prompted “strong interest and a group of high-quality candidates”.
Pendragon founder Trevor Finn has suggested that he could be poised to make a return to the automotive sector almost 12 months after departing the former AM100-topping car retail group.
Marshall Motor Holdings has achieved a 12th-placed finish in the Super Large category of the annual Best Workplaces ranking presented by Great Place to Work.
Lookers will expand its internal fraud investigations to its entire business after initial findings from one of its operating divisions resulted in an expected one-off charge of over £4 million in its 2019 financial results.
Pendragon has appointed former Mercedes-Benz USA president and chief executive Dietmar Exler as a non-executive director.
Pendragon has announced that 20% of chief executive Bill Berman’s pay will be donated to the NHS as employees across the group were furloughed and took wage cuts during the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown.
Marshall Motors and Vertu Motors bosses Daksh Gupta and Robert Forrester have recognised the efforts of their car retail workforce to support the NHS and other key workers during the coronavirus lockdown period.
Coronavirus-prompted car dealership closures resulting from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lock-down of non-essential retail businesses will see ‘80% of car dealership employees’ placed on Government salary support.
Business leaders from the car retail sector have been taking to email and social media to reassure their members of staff and customers of their actions amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Pendragon has revealed that it suffered a £117.4 million loss after tax in 2019 in an annual results statement that revealed the full impact of “significant H1 losses”.
Pendragon has appointed Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) divisional director and former chief operating officer of Opus Energy, Nikki Flanders, as a non-executive director.
Marshall Motor Holdings reported revenues rose for a fifth year since its IPO, rising 4.1% to £2.28 billion in the AM100 car retailer group’s latest set of annual financial results.
