Peter Vardy Group has announced a partnership with Zoom EV, to provide customers with services to help simplify the switch to electric.
Group 1 UK chief executive Earl J Hesterberg expressed hopes that strong car retail margins would persist for some time to come after recording increased profit and turnover in Q3 2021.
Swedish motor retailer Anders Hedin has increased his stake in the UK's top 10 AM100 group Pendragon to just over 25% of voting rights.
Macklin Motors has been announced as an official club partner of Heart of Midlothian Football Club.
Sytner Group’s CarShop used car supermarket division has opened a new retail site near Halifax, taking its number of Yorkshire retail sites to four.
Online reviews should be embraced by car retail businesses to “create a narrative of good customer service”, AM’s latest ‘General Managers Guide to…’ webinar heard.
Vertu Motors has created 15 new jobs with the opening of a new Bristol Street Motors Renault and Dacia dealership in York’s former Jaguar showroom.
Vanarama has beaten the likes of BT, Vodafone and DHL Supply Chain to no fewer than seven gold awards at UK Customer Experience Awards.
Inchcape Retail suffered a near tenfold year-on-year decline in profitability as it revealed a £76.4m pre-tax loss in annual financial results for its COVID-19 impacted 2020 trading period.
Peoples Ford chairman Brian Gilda has attributed a record set of annual financial results to a ‘tsunami of perfect performance’ following 2020’s first COVID-19 lockdown.
Rockar Jaguar Land Rover has opened its new showroom store at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London.
Clive Brook Volvo’s Bradford dealership could be relocated by Easter after the franchised retailer secured planning permission to redevelop the city’s former Jaguar showroom.
Cazoo has agreed the £6.5 million acquisition of online commercial vehicles retailers Van365 ahead of its launch into the van market later this year.
Eden Motor Group has given Mazda UK its first presence in Reading for over a decade after creating a dual-brand dealership site in its existing Hyundai Motor UK dealership.
Reputation is proving “the difference between success and failure” for car retailers navigating a period rocked by vehicle supply shortages in a market buoyed by strong consumer demand.
Constellation Automotive claims to have reached “unmatched scale” in automotive retail after expanding its car retail operations into Europe with the acquisition CarNext.
Vertu Motors chief executive Robert Forrester has told AM that he is “buying used cars everywhere I go” as part of the AM100 PLC’s efforts to keep its forecourts stocked.
Cazoo has opened the doors to its 20th car retail Customer Centre at West Thurrock’s Lakeside Retail Park following a £1 million investment.
Pendragon has appointed former DFS chief executive Ian Filby as non-executive chairman as it sets out to deliver on its new, digitally-driven strategic priorities.
Vertu Motors has highlighted further growth potential through an “increasingly visible acquisition pipeline” after delivering a record £51.8 million adjusted pre-tax profit in H1 2021.
