MT Dealer Profiles

Seat is on the up. The Volkswagen Group brand has ambitious growth plans with the arrival of the new Leon beginning a major range revitalisation programme which will see the brand debut its first SUV next year. Sales volumes are already on the rise, up 18% in 2014. The brand is also rolling out a new corporate identity across the ...

Park’s is one of Scotland’s largest multi-franchise groups, rated 32 in the Motor Trader Top 200 with 45 outlets and 21 different franchises across the volume and prestige sectors. New brands added in the last 18 months include Maserati and McLaren. It has come a long way since it was formed in 1971 by Douglas Park who started a coach-hire ...

Swansway Group reveals how it is developing the Stafford Land Rover business it acquired in 2012 in this special Dealer Insight sponsored by AutoProtect. Staffordshire-based Swansway Group is a young company, established in 2003, but clearly going places. Rated 30 in the Motor Trader Top 200, the company is also the highest dealer group in the 2014 Great Place to ...

Neil White explains how he built up a £30m business in Surrey representing Mazda, Hyundai and Suzuki, in this special Dealer Insight sponsored by AutoProtect. In 1980 Neil White took a 50% pay cut from his role running overseas operations for a major consumer goods company to become a salesman at the family firm. Back then TW White & Sons ...

Guy Foster, managing director of Southampton dealer Newmans, reveals how he built up a prosperous business with strong support from Suzuki in this special Dealer Insight sponsored by AutoProtect. An interview with Suzuki sales and marketing director Dale Wyatt in last month’s Motor Trader concluded that it was a “good time to be a Suzuki dealer”. Guy Foster would certainly ...

The van market is becoming ever more competitive and for dealers who cover the commercial vehicle sector

Situated adjacent to the Williams F1 racing team, the spacious surroundings of the Grove, Oxfordshire premises of Vauxhall dealer Bellinger are immediately obvious.

JFE Nissan dealer principal Matthew Holcombe reveals how he puts best practice to work in this special Dealer Insight sponsored by AutoProtect. Inspired by the slick efficiency and professionalism of an F1 pit lane, JFE Nissan is raising the standards bar for volume aftersales workshops Ideas to improve the best practice credentials of a dealership can come from many and ...

Devonshire Motors dealer principal Nathan Tomlinson reveals how the dealership was transformed in this special Dealer Insight sponsored by AutoProtect. For Mitsubishi dealers recent years have been a roller-coaster ride. Those who weathered the recession were then plunged into a punishing exchange rate which nearly spelled the end of the franchise in the UK. Yet through this period Devonshire Motors, ...

Patrick Lawrence, general manager of Hartwell Supercentre, reveals how £2m of investment has helped the group expand the business in this special Dealer Insight sponsored by AutoProtect Two years and £2m have enabled Patrick Lawrence and his team to welcome three new franchises to Hartwell on Oxford’s Motor Park Hartwell may be best known as a Ford business but the ...