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The government has called on the car industry and other sectors to hire more apprentices. Business Secretary Vince Cable and Skills Minister John Hayes urged more employers to create a new generation of skilled workers Dr Cable said that the government wanted to work with business to deliver 100,000 more apprentices by 2014...

New car sales in 2011 could be much lower than those forecast by the SMMT, according to Graham Bushby, head of Baker Tilly restructuring and recovery’s motor group.

New car sales fell 11.5 per cent in January

The Warranty Group is looking to grow sales of service plans in 2011 through its ‘champion’ programme. It has trained 550 at dealerships on how to sell service plans.

Vauxhall has announced a shake-up of senior managers at head office

Accident Exchange has strengthened its balance sheet in a debt for equity deal worth £50m. The £50m liability in the form of Convertible Loan Notes was originally due for repayment at the end of 2013.

Volvo grew UK company car sales by a fifth last year to 19,934 units. The increase followed the outsourcing of some fleet sales work to Magma Group.

Motorpoint has officially opened its new call centre in Derby. The car supermarket has spent a six-figure sum transforming a floor at St James House on Mansfield Road in the city, creating up to 30 jobs.

Some fleets are continuing to extend replacement cycles for cars and vans to five years.

Porsche Retail Group has a new boss following the promotion of Charles Tennant to the position of group general manager. Tennant has been with Porsche Cars Great Britain as network operations manager since 2007 and replaces John Poulson who has left the company...