Car retailers could be compelled to turn out the showroom lights and accelerate decarbonisation as energy price rises start to impact margins, AM has been told.
Used car dealers need to collaborate with motor finance partners to effectively compete with new digital disruptors, says iVendi.
Automotive retailers that can leverage their customer data will be best placed to face any future challenges with the automotive retail model, according to customer relationship management (CRM) specialists Salesforce.
Delegates at next week's AM Live car retail expo will hear connected retailing tips from iVendi that can help them successfully compete and better manage the digital sales journey.
Auto Trader is aiming to drive efficiencies for car dealers with a new stock management system which it claims will remove many of the biggest pain points in vehicle marketing.
The past fifty years has seen radical change within industries such as the automotive sector thanks to the advent of technology.
Automotive ecommerce agency Drivvn has appointed Anu Shahi as its new head of product and technology.
Retailers can learn innovative new ways to connect and market to drivers that are on the road as part of a specialist digital session at next month’s AM Live at the NEC on November 11.
Arbury and Hendy Group have joined Real Time Communications (RTC) dealer group partners, while Johnsons and Heritage Automotive have renewed contracts.
Simon Hunt has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of information security and compliance at iVendi.
Close Brothers Motor Finance has teamed-up with Auto Trader to launch a “motor finance industry-first data tool” offering consumer demand insight to car retailers.
GardX has rebranded and relaunched its AD-Vantage range of digital consumer journey tool as Fuel Digital and is poised to make a new AI lead management platform available to customers.
Motor retailers are feeling the effects of the ongoing energy cost crisis but there are various countermeasures they can consider, experts reveal in the new issue of AM.
Niall Fitzgerald, a former CEO of Unilever, once said, “Data makes your briefcase heavy. Insight makes you rich.” It’s an approach that will guide the rapid advancement of online automotive retail.
As the new car market declines and EV ownership becomes more widespread, dealer groups are increasingly turning their attention to older vehicles to keep workshops full.
Even the traditionally slender margins that car dealerships make on new and used car sales once all the overheads have been factored in, aftersales is key to profitability.
Aftersales departments have been kept busy for the best part of a decade by a buoyant new car market with each dealerships’ own customer base keeping workshops full.
Automotive sales and technology company MotorK plans to raise €150 million (£127m) with an initial public offering (IPO) of shares on the dutch stock exchange, Euronext Amsterdam, before the end of the year.
Keyloop has expanded its Automotive Technology Competition for university students following its inaugural event last year.
Former Chrysalis-Solmotive co-owner Paul Bennett has joined iVendi as senior vice president for international business and banking alliances as part of a plan to triple revenues within three years.
