Emma King, Ford’s senior purchasing manager, has been named the winner of Autocar’s Great British Women in the Car Industry Rising Stars 2019 initiative, held in partnership with the SMMT. King started her career as a commercial vehicle buyer for Ford in 2007 and has risen through the ranks to lead the firm’s electric vehicle charge in purchasing and manage ...
Read More »Bristol Mitsubishi picks up Dealer of the Year at manufacturers’ awards
Bristol Mitsubishi, which is part of the CCR Motor Company, has been awarded the title of 2019 Dealer of the Year by Mitsubishi Motors in the UK. Its awards celebrate and recognise the achievements of dealers in the Mitsubishi UK network. Awards include Dealer of the Year, New Dealer of the Year, Sales Dealer of the Year and Aftersales Dealer ...
Read More »SUVs take home nine titles at Auto Trader New Car Awards
The Peugeot 3008 has been announced as the best new car of 2019, according to a consumer vote for the third-annual Auto Trader New Car Awards. In general, SUVs performed well at the awards, accounting for one in five of all body related searches on Auto Trader and taking eight other titles. Ian Plummer, Auto Trader director said: “This is ...
Read More »Suzuki named UK best for overall customer service
Suzuki has been named the highest ranked volume brand for overall customer service satisfaction in the J.D. Power 2019 UK Customer Service Index Study. The brand scored 813 points out of a possible 1,000. This score was above the volume brand average of 786 and notably just two points behind the winner of the Premium Brands section of the study. ...
Read More »UK Groupe Renault dealers pick up European awards
Four UK Groupe Renault dealers have been recognised at its European awards ceremony in Paris. The winners were Lee Phillips, dealer principal, Renault Cardiff (Best Large Dealer), Jonathan Gravell, Group Head and dealer principal, Gravells of Kidwelly (Best Medium Dealer), Charlie Bell, dealer principal, Bells of Crossgar (Best Small Dealer) and Mark Flood, dealer principal, Glyn Hopkin Chelmsford (Best New ...
Read More »Hatfields bags a double at Jaguar Land Rover national awards
Hatfields Jaguar and Hatfields Land Rover have been named both Group of the Year 2018 for Jaguar and Group of the the Year 2018 for Land Rover in the UK. The duo achieved the awards for all round performance in aspects of sales and customer satisfaction. Hatfields, who represent Jaguar and Land Rover with locations throughout the North of England ...
Read More »Swansway Crewe picks up SEAT Fleet Dealer of the Year
Swansway Crewe SEAT has been named SEAT Fleet Dealer of the Year. The family-owned and run business was commended for the quality of it service delivery to fleets, resulting in strong customer satisfaction and sales growth of 38% in 2018. As well as achieving significant fleet volume growth, the dealership’s service delivery was highly complimented by the manufacturer. It scored ...
Read More »Rolls-Royce Manchester wins Regional award at World Dealer Conference
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Manchester has taken UK, Western & Southern Europe and Russia Dealer of the Year at the manufacture’s Global Dealer awards. The awards were presented at the World Dealer Conference, which was held in Shanghai for the first time. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Beijing and Munich were jointly awarded the top prize of Global Dealer of the Year. Rolls-Royce cars ...
Read More »Jaguar’s first all-electric car wins Car of the Year 2019
The Jaguar I-Pace has won Car of the Year 2019 at the Geneva International Motor Show. The award is chosen by 60 automotive journalists from 23 European countries in a live vote at the show. For the first time, two cars had the same number of winning points: The Alpine A110 and the Jaguar I-Pace. The Jaguar I-Pace finally won ...
Read More »Western wins Mercedes-Benz retailer of the year award
Western Automobile Company has been named Mercedes–Benz Cars UK Retailer of the Year. The company, which has two sites in Edinburgh and one in Coldstream, won because of its performance areas including new and used car sales, after sales and customer service. Gary Savage, CEO, Mercedes–Benz Cars UK, commented: “It has been an outstanding year for all of our retailer ...
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