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Penske has announced plans to roll out the Carshop brand worldwide and ramp up sales. Penske, which opens Sytner and CarShop in the UK, opened a greenfield used vehicle SuperCentre site in Nottingham in the final quarter of 2020. “We intend to grow our SuperCentre business. With the opening of Nottingham dealership in the UK in December we have started ...

Sytner Sheffield BMW has been named BMW Retailer of the Year. It retained its title of BMW Aftersales Retailer of the Year and was also named BMW PLC Retailer of the Year. The Sytner BMW marketing team was also named Marketing Retailer of the Year. Sytner Group recently grew its BMW representation with the completion of a new £9m BMW ...

Sytner North East has been awarded the title of Mercedes-Benz Retailer of the Year. The dealership, which has sites in Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Teesside and Carlisle, was chosen because of its outstanding performance in every area of the business. This includes customer service, used car sales, workshop retail hours and customer retention. The smart Retailer of the Year accolade ...

Vertu Motors has bought four Volkswagen car dealerships in West Yorkshire from Sytner for £8.8m, including £1.5m of goodwill. The businesses in Leeds, Huddersfield, Harrogate and Skipton bring Vertu’s number of Volkswagen dealerships to nine. The four dealerships generate annual pre-tax profits of £600,000 on turnover of £112m. Vertu said it expects the acquisition to be earnings enhancing in the ...

Sytner Group has completed the building of a new £9m BMW car dealership in Cardiff. The new 43,000 sq ft development will replace an existing dealership in the city. The new two-storey dealership will stock new and pre-owned BMW vehicles, including electric cars from BMW’s ‘i’ division. Keir Edmonds, managing director of MCS Group, the main contractor for the build, ...

Pentagon Motor Group, a subsidiary of the South African listed company Motus Group Holdings, has appointed Alwyn Harris as a regional director. Harris will take on responsibility for Pentagon’s two multiple franchise dealerships in Lincoln, representing Vauxhall, Mazda, Citroen, Peugeot and Jeep on Tritton Road, and Renault, Dacia and Mitsubishi on the Outer Circular Road, as well as the Group’s ...

A former Vospers motor dealership in Exeter has been sold for £1.7m to Ability Matters Group. The site is a former Fiat and Alfa Romeo showroom, comprising two showrooms totalling 12,246 sq ft. Will Jolly, consultant within the automotive and roadside department at colliers international, which brokered the deal, said: “This deal highlights the ongoing strength of demand for freehold ...

Sytner is set to open a new CarShop site in Bristol. The supermarket will be its 10th site and create 65 new jobs in roles like sales, service and management. Leo Nelson, marketing and digital director at CarShop said: “We are delighted to announce a new store in Bristol, and proud to be generating exciting new career opportunities to residents of ...

Sytner has sold four of its Volkswagen dealerships to Johnsons Volkswagen. The sites are located in Liverpool, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent and Warrington. The ex-Sytner dealerships will join Johnsons’ existing showrooms in Birmingham, Birmingham Bullring, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth and Willenhall. Sytner Group achieved a profit before tax of £113,266,000 in 2018, up 14.27% on 2017. It attributed this to its expansion ...

Sytner Group recently raised £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The donation comes from a recently completed initiative that saw the Sytner Group donate £1 for every customer questionnaire that completed after the purchase of a car from the Group. The amount could pay for a Macmillan nurse for 360 hours, helping people living with cancer and their families receive essential ...