The average UK car dealer continued its strong performance in April producing a profit of just over £9,000, according to the latest profitability figures from ASE.
Benfield Motor Group has opened a new £7 million Audi dealership on Scotswood Road, Newcastle.
Multi-franchise dealer Crawley Down Group has launched a new website at www.cdg-cars.com.
Milton Keynes-based Toyota dealer Steven Eagell has expanded.
MG says it is on track to increase its dealer network to 80 sites before the end of this year.
Mitsubishi dealers in Swindon and Dursley were the big winners at CCR Mitsubishi’s annual dealer conference.
Lancaster Toyota Colchester, part of Jardine Motor Group, has moved to a brand new eco-friendly site after outgrowing their previous location.
Family-owned Swansway Group has posted a pre-tax profit result of £5.1 million, up 57% for 2013.
JCT600, the family owned Yorkshire car retailer, has posted a 36% increase in turnover to £909 million and a 30% increase in operating profits to £20.3m in the year to December 31, 2013.
In its drive to create the ‘best place to work’, Scottish dealership group Peter Vardy is confident the company will also emerge as the ‘best place to buy’.
Top 20 AM100 group Cambria Automobiles has increased underlying profit before tax by 45% to £2.02 million for its interim results for the six months ended February 28, 2014.
The average UK car dealer made over £96,000 in the important plate-change month of March.
The first graduate trainee at dealer group Vertu Motors has progressed into a senior role at Bristol Street Motors Lichfield.
A father-of-two from Surrey has scooped a £1,000 of Marks and Spencer vouchers in a competition run by their local Mitsubishi dealership in Putney.
Two new members have joined the sales team at Macrae & Dick Land Rover, Jim Proctor from Inverness and George Mackie from Kintore.
Manufacturers and larger dealer groups have signed up to a new Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) management standard which will reduce the amount of replication in training across the industry.
Pre-tax profits at Vertu Motors rose to £15.8 million from £4.4m in its 2013/14 trading period.
Evans Halshaw has become the latest dealer group to support the tyre safety campaign group, TyreSafe.
Peoples, the UK’s largest independent Ford dealer, says it is on course for another record-breaking year with turnover expected to reach £200 million.
Jardine Motors' dealership Wolverhampton Audi has retained its position as the top Audi dealer in the country for an unprecedented second year in a row, achieving first place with highest scores on the Audi balanced scorecard (Q-Power).
