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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 ...

Motorists waiting at the busy level crossing in Cross Hills, near Keighley in West Yorkshire, have an excellent view of the premises of Just Citroën, a dealership that in the last two years has undergone a remarkable transformation.

By any standards the 2013 results of Ford specialist Peoples were impressive. The group, which has seven outlets based around Edinburgh and Liverpool, doubled profits to £4.047m, with turnover increasing 26.7% to £185.9m to produce the best results in its 30-year history.

When Saab collapsed in 2012 many UK dealers were left looking for new representation. The answer for small Cambridgeshire-based group Buckingham & Stanley was to return to a brand it had walked away from two decades earlier.

Triangle of Chesterfield, a small privately run solus site, provides a textbook study of how to grow profitability with a volume franchise.