Motor Depot is on target to offset over 50,000 tonnes of CO2 in the first year of a new carbon offset scheme.
The Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA) has started the search for a head of membership services as it looks to grow its car retailer membership in its third year of operations.
Progress Suzuki’s former franchised dealership sites have been acquired and re-opened by bespoke luxury vehicle specialist Urban Automotive and a used car operator.
Motorpoint has said that its logistics staff have driven 86,000 miles to facilitate used car home deliveries since it launched the service during COVID-19 lockdown.
Cazoo founder Alex Chesterman has revealed plans for “couple of dozen” Customer Centres across the UK following the opening of the online car retailer's first vehicle handover and servicing facility in Manchester today.
Pendragon officials have been left “angry and confused” by the launch of a Motorpoint television advertising campaign which features a near-identical slogan to its own, AM understands.
Motorpoint has reported that business at its 13 used car supermarkets has been “comfortably ahead” of 2019 in the period since the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were eased on June 1.
Imperial Cars has begun to consult its staff over widespread redundancies just two weeks after its acquisition by online car retailer Cazoo.
Car retailers have been warned to be on their guard after a fraudster attempted to scam the James Glen Car Sales out of £41,000 and a Porsche Cayman sports car by exploiting the Government’s Bounce Back Loans (BBL) scheme.
Independent used car supermarket group Available Car has written to its employees warning of “potential redundancies” as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.
Independent car retailer Motorpoint has delivered 1,000 cars during the coronavirus lockdown via its free home delivery service.
Award-winning independent car dealer Angus MacKinnon has died following a short illness, aged 70.
Smaller businesses could access new Government-backed 'Bounce Back' loans of up to £50,000 “within days”, according to Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
The Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA) has celebrated the inclusion of regular commission payments in the calculation of their income in revisions to the Government’s Job Retention Scheme.
Imperial Cars operations director Neil Smith has set-up social media discussion and support forums to allow car retailers to discuss business issues and advice via LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
A petition arguing that commission payments from car sales should be included in the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme wage calculations has attracted almost 8,000 signatures in less than two days.
Motorpoint chief executive Mark Carpenter has vowed to give-up his own income from the used car supermarket business in order to top-up the wages of ‘furloughed’ staff during the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown.
Property developer Northumberland Estates is looking for car dealers to fill two remaining showroom vacancies on its Vroom retail park on the outskirts of Newcastle.
Imperial Cars has opened the doors at its 17th used car retail site with the completion of a new showroom facility in Birmingham.
An independent used car dealership has been ordered to pay £14,000 after attempting to sell and Audi Q7 SUV having ‘clocked’ the vehicle to remove 30,000 miles from its mileage.
