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Vertu Motors has submitted a planning application in Bolton for a Jaguar Land Rover dealership. The new dealership, part of Jaguar Land Rover’s restructuring of its UK network, will replace an existing bodyshop, petrol station and car storage facility on the site. The planning application highlights the hoops that franchised dealers need to go through to develop new businesses in ...

RA Creamer & Son is closing its Jaguar business in Kensington after 90-years with the brand. It is handing back the two Royal Warrants after 40 years and closing the business by year-end. But RA Creamer & Son managing director Michael Quinn told Motor Trader he plans to “bounce back” and set up a specialist Jaguar business in 2017 in ...

Lookers is to open Jaguar and Volvo dealerships on a five-acre flagship site in Hillington Park Glasgow. Property consultancy Rapleys acquired the site which fronts Junction 25 of the M8 Motorway. Planning has been granted with construction due to commence autumn 2016. Lookers has been expanding in recent months. In August it announced that it was selling its parts business ...

Williams Motor Holdings turned in a strong trading performance in 2015 with pre-tax profits up 53.7% to £6.3m on turnover up 17.7% to £426.6m The result included an improved year on year performance from all areas of the business, particularly used car sales, according to accounts submitted to Companies House. The group threw some light on the back office challenges ...

The Stratstone Land Rover Houghton-Le-Spring service centre in he North East has been transformed into a full retail business. The dealership continues to servicing, MOTs and repairs on all makes and models. The business will share the site with the existing Stratstone Jaguar dealership, which earlier this year was crowned Retailer of the Year at the Jaguar Gala Dinner in ...

Jaguar UK is pitching its XE model head-to-head with its main rivals at key dealerships around the UK this weekend. The brand is renting more than 250 BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and Mercedes C-Class models for its XE Challenge event and will invite customers to test cars back to back. Jaguar Land Rover UK managing director Jeremy Hicks said: “Our ...

  Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has had a run of success following the purchase of the two brands by Tata from Ford after the economic crash in 2008. The group has invested billions in new product which has already driven profitability for Land Rover dealers and is now expected to do the same for Jaguar retailers on the back of ...

Jardine Motors Group has opened a Land Rover dealership in Wolverhampton, its sixth dealership with the brand. The move is an interim measure until a new Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) centre is built over the next 18 months. Jardine, which has recruited 38 staff for the new dealership, now has six Land Rover dealerships. The Jardine move forms part Jaguar ...

Jaguar Land Rover UK managing director Jeremy Hicks has called for Jaguar and Land Rover dealers to overhaul pay structures for sales staff. Hicks wants dealers to move away from low basic salaries with high bonuses to higher basic salaries of more than £20,000 with lower bonus structures. He first raised the issue with dealers at a global dealer conference ...

Five years ago, at the Frankfurt Motor Show, a bold sign with the letters “JLR” separated the Jaguar and Land Rover displays. It was the first and last appearance of a corporate logo that was supposed to reinforce the idea of “one company, two brands” that, between them, presented a range to rival the all-powerful Germans. The logo may have ...