Steven Eagell Toyota branches in Colchester and Ipswich celebrated winning the Toyota Ichiban Award with an event at the Stoke-by-Nayland Resort near Colchester. Each year, 2,500 European Toyota retailers across 34 markets compete to win one of only 47 Ichiban Awards. Ichiban comes from the Japanese ‘okyakusama ichiban’, which means ‘customer first’. Both Steven Eagell Colchester and Ipswich received the ...
Read More »Steven Eagell renews remarketing partnership with BCA
Steven Eagell has renewed its exclusive remarketing partnership with BCA for a further two years. The deal will see around 7,000 cars offered annually through a programme of sales via BCA Online. The dealer group operates franchises for Toyota and Lexus at 44 dealerships, covering Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, East of England, Essex, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, South ...
Read More »Steven Eagell joins Automotive 30% Club
Steven Eagell, CEO of the eponymous Toyota and Lexus dealer group, has become a Silver Member of Automotive 30% Club The Automotive 30% Club is a voluntary network of MDs and CEOs in automotive who aim to fill at least 30% of key leadership positions in the member organisations with diverse women by 2030. Steven Eagell Group operates 23 Toyota ...
Read More »Steven Eagell roll-outs AutoBuzz software at Toyota dealerships
Steven Eagell has introduced order to handover software AutoBuzz to its Toyota dealerships following a successful launch within its seven-site Lexus division. This type of software has become increasingly attractive for dealers over the past few years with long delivery times for some cars. AutoBuzz from AutoComms Solutions integrates with Steven Eagell’s Drive CRM system and, at point of new ...
Read More »Steven Eagell buys Oxford Toyota dealership from Inchcape
Steven Eagell Group has bought the Toyota Centre in Oxford from Inchcape Retail for an undisclosed sum. This brings the total number of sites now operated by the privately-owned Steven Eagell Group to 32, including 23 Toyota and 9 Lexus. CEO, Steven Eagell, said: “I am very pleased to confirm we have completed the purchase of the Toyota Centre in ...
Read More »Steven Eagell, Honda, electrification and EV Retailing Summit 2022
In the June issue of Motor Trader we caught up with Steven Eagell, CEO of the eponymous Group (P22) who has built up a highly successful business focusing exclusively on Toyota and Lexus. Eagell addresses taking on the Lexus brand in 2016, which he said took no major change in philosophy, and addresses questions over further growth by saying that ...
Read More »Steven Eagell reports record turnover and profits for 2021
Steven Eagell has reports record turnover, gross profit and pre-tax net profit for 2021. Turnover for 2021 was £703m, up from £514m in 2020, which represents an increase of 37%, while the gross profit for 2021 was £104m, up from £76m in 2020, an increase of 37%. The Group said that its primary business activities for 2021 were the sale ...
Read More »Steven Eagell Group upgrades website to drive ecommerce sales
Steven Eagell Group has announced the launch of its new, upgraded website. The Group, which comprises ten Lexus dealerships and twenty-one Toyota dealerships, has added a new front-end search and vehicle detail page solution, with on-page checkout functionality to drive ecommerce sales. Initial results are already showing significant promise, with the Group seeing its first online sale just hours after ...
Read More »Steven Eagell profits surge 72% to record £16.8m in 2020
Steven Eagell turned in a record performance in 2020 with pre-tax profits jumping 72% to £16.8m on turnover up 15% to £515m. The group said it was “extremely pleased” with the performance in a year hit by the pandemic with showrooms temporarily closed for business in successive lockdowns. A third of the group’s profits came from new car sales with ...
Read More »Steven Eagell joins Automotive 30% Club
Steven Eagell has become the latest dealer group boss to become a member of the Automotive 30% Club. The club is a voluntary network of MDs and CEOs from UK based automotive manufacturing, retailing and supplier companies, with the purpose of achieving a better gender balance within the automotive industry. It aims to fill at least 30% of key leadership ...
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