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Motor Trader will be hosting a special free webinar on how dealers can maximise their digital marketing spend on 6 November in association with CarGurus. Panellist will include Nigel McMinn, chief operating officer of Lookers; Jeremy Evans, managing director of Marketing Delivery; and Diego Sanson, vice president of international business development at CarGurus. The webinar, titled Maximising your Digital Marketing ...

On this Saturday’s episode of Motor Trade Radio Derek Blair and Philip Nothard discuss the latest headlines on Motor Trader. In a surprise move Marshall announced that it had sold its leasing arm to Northridge, a subsidiary of Bank of Ireland for £42.5m. On the people front Paul Williams resigned from SsangYong as CEO and the company is looking for ...

It’s been a great time in used car sales. At the retail end the big dealer groups, including Pendragon, Inchcape, Lookers, Vertu and Marshall – have reported excellent used car sales with profits on the rise. The large dealer groups’ used car operations are benefiting from their scale and spending power. They have made big investments in their websites and ...

Lookers has opened a new Audi dealership in Sunderland following £5.7m investment. The dealership includes a 13-car showroom, 55-car used display and a 15-ramp workshop. It also has a roof-top car park with 99 spaces reserved for repair and servicing customer, freeing up space for parking at ground level. The new retail site forms part of Lookers’ wider capital investment ...

Lookers is piloting virtual reality technology to enable customers to view dealer showrooms on Facebook. The 3D virtual showroom technology has been developed by Radar Video and has been developed to boost dealers’ social media marketing enquiries and sales. The technology is being piloted at Lookers Vauxhall Birmingham with customers able to view the showroom and display cars from their ...

On this Saturday’s episode of MotortradeRadio.com, industry commentator Philip Nothard and Motor Trade editor Curtis Hutchinson discuss the news headlines on MotorTrader.com. over the past week. The SMMT has taken the unusual step of reissuing its used car sales figures for Q2 because of an error. The recalculated figures reveal that UK used car transactions experienced a decline of just ...

A service advisor with mental health problems who applied for shorter working hours with Lookers subsidiary Charles Hurst in Northern Ireland has been awarded £11,840 by an Industrial Tribunal under the Disability Discrimination Act 1955. The tribunal found that Charles Hurst failed in its duty to make reasonable adjustments for Marie-Claire McLaughlin. McLaughlin had been employed by Charles Hurst since ...

Lookers is opening its second multi-franchise used car centre in Motherwell on 1 September. The opening comes just four weeks after the dealer group opened its first Lookers Outlet in Gateshead ahead of a planned national rollout. The new site is based alongside the group’s Nissan and Hyundai dealerships on Windmillhill Street. Although the Lookers Outlet concept offers customers a ...

On this Saturday’s episode of MotortradeRadio.com, retail specialist Philip Nothard and Jim Reid of Jim Reid Cars discuss the latest headlines from Motor Trader over the past week. The story of the week was the news that a group of used car dealers have launched the Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA), a not-for-profit trade body to look after the interests ...

Lookers is to pilot its new in-house website in Q4 after the busy September plate change. The UK’s third largest dealer group is testing the website at its Used Direct, Dublin Audi and Charles Hurst businesses in Ireland before rolling it out across its UK network of dealerships. The website has been designed for those customers who want to complete ...