Broad Oak’s Nissan dealership in Canterbury Kent has won a Global Award from the manufacturer, as the best-performing Nissan franchise in the UK. The Canterbury dealership was rated against businesses in key Nissan markets globally and impressed the assessors with both its excellent customer service and its showcasing of the Nissan selection of vehicles. Broad […]
Read More →Ford is planning to cut more than half its current retailer network in time to for a switch to agency sales, according to Auto Retail Agenda sources. It is understood the network was issued with termination notices last year and it was known a cut back was planned. However, final numbers for those that will survive […]
Read More →The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) have released a statement applauding the best ‘new plate month’ performance since before the COVID-19 pandemic. They continued to state that it was commercial and fleet customers rather than retail that fuelled the market. New car registrations successfully ended Q1 2023 after large fleet demand drove year-on-year […]
Read More →The EU has passed a law that will mean all cars sold after 2035 must be zero-emission. Germany was granted an exemption for cars running on e-fuels, although e-fuels are not currently produced at scale. The new law will also require all new cars sold to have 55% lower CO2 emissions from 2030, compared to 2021 […]
Read More →Despite being a 30.6% drop on 2021’s £83m earnings, the £57.6m underlying pre-tax profit that Pendragon made in 2022 has exceeded expectations,. Trading under the Stratstone and Evans Halshaw brands, Pendragon had been expected by market analysts to deliver £49m. Results for 2022 show that revenue grew by 4.9% to £3.62 billion, and operating profit […]
Read More →BMW has revealed more about its direct-sales agency model, which will see it invoice customers directly and retailers receive a fixed fee for each sale. Sales and marketing boss Pieter Nota said it will start with Mini in 2024 and all BMW cars in 2026. Often Misunderstood Nota was keen to stress “the agency model […]
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