Car retailers' aftersales departments need to take action to keep pace with dramatic changes in the sector such as electrification, automation and digitisation.
Autotech Group is urging senior leaders, HR directors and managers in the automotive aftermarket to drive forward the skills conversation.
Vertu Motors has launched a recruitment drive to attract staff to four new Toyota franchised car dealerships after taking over the brand’s West of Scotland territory from Arnold Clark.
As the automotive retail sector today embraces International Women’s Day (March 8) AM’s latest News Insight feature investigated the hurdles to improved diversity and inclusion (D&I) and the benefits it can bring.
Heycar will look to ‘Break the Bias’ with a women in automotive-themed webinar discussion set to follow-up today’s International Women’s Day.
Carwow has announced its launch a women's network after founder and chief executive James Hind became the latest member of the Automotive 30% Club.
MotorVise Automotive has expanded its team after securing 20 new clients in the past three months.
The automotive sector needs to drive its “cultural competence” to deliver levels of diversity and inclusion which could help solve its skills crisis.
Former managing director of the Colt Car Company, Rob Lindley, has joined Ennis & Co as an associate.
Marshall Motor Group, JCT600 and TrustFord have been recognised for raising awareness of apprenticeship opportunities via Drive My Career's social media takeover.
The National Franchised Dealers Association’s (NFDA) Drive My Career initiative is once again rallying apprentices to take part in a social media takeover to highlight employment opportunities in automotive retail.
Eden Motor Group has celebrated staff development successes after promoting three of its long-standing employees into operations director roles within the car retail business.
Motorpoint has begun the process of recruiting 30 new employees ahead of the opening of its new 120-car retail site in Maidstone.
Dealers that seek to recruit salespeople with the "right customer-focused skills" can expect to improve the gender balance within their business, according to Motorvise founder Fraser Brown.
Marshall Motor Holdings chief executive Daksh Gupta has called for OEMs to accelerate cuts to their franchised networks as part of efforts to solve the retail sector’s staffing crisis.
Vertu Bradford Land Rover is on a recruit drive to support its service department, with new employees receiving a £2,000 signing bonus.
People are the automotive retail sector’s biggest asset.
Car retail’s staffing crisis, a celebration of inspiring automotive women and in-depth insight into the soaring used car market all feature in a packed December edition of Automotive Management (AM) magazine.
Sytner Group’s CarShop used car supermarket division has launched a recruitment drive to find vehicle technicians, MOT testers, body shop technicians, SMART repairers and painters.
The future of Block Exemption in car retail, electric vehicle (EV) sillks and recruitment look set to be among the top subjects up for debate on the NFDA stand at AM Live 2021.
