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Applications for the Bentley Motors 2025 apprenticeship programme are now open until 21 February. The 2025 intake will offer roles in business areas such as manufacturing and research and development. The programme will take place at Bentley’s Dream Factory in Crewe, offering apprentices training and hands-on experience as well as mentorship. Karen Lange, member of the board for Human resources ...

Bentley Motors has announced the extension of its Beyond100 business strategy, now called Beyond100+, from 2030 to 2035. The manufacturer has also confirmed that its first fully electric car will be revealed in 2026, creating ‘the world’s first true Luxury Urban SUV’. It will be the first of a new PHEV or BEV model to be launched every year over ...

JCT600 has invested in JCT600 Brooklands to create showrooms for Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce and Bentley. The dealership brings the three marques together on one site for the first time anywhere in the UK. JCT600’s automotive history at the Brooklands site on Ring Road, Lower Wortley dates to 1999. Since then, it has been refurbished three times, but never fully redeveloped ...

  May was a bruising month for a raft of car brands in the UK with double digit sales declines. Polestar saw registrations fall -69.6% to 314 units for the month while Fiat saw sales decline -44.9% to 523 units. Bentley was down -37.6% to 68 units and Vauxhall -32.1% to 6,026 units. Toyota fell -17.9% to 6,834 units, Ford ...

Frank-Steffen Walliser is moving from Porsche to Bentley to on July 1 to take the place of Adrian Hallmark as its chairman and CEO. Hallmark left his position at Bentley to join Aston Martin as an executive director of the company. Walliser said: “I am approaching this job with great respect and looking forward to having a team in Crewe ...

Bentley is pushing ahead with plans to have all 235 dealers globally Carbon Neutral by 2025. Its UK, Europe, Middle East, China, Africa and India dealer networks are already carbon neutral, according to the just published Bentley  Annual Sustainability Report. The report highlights three UK dealer successes in 2023 delivered by Cambria Automobiles and Sytner. The Bentley UK Sustainable Retailer ...

The March plate-change, the biggest sales month of the year saw the emergence of winners and losers in sales volumes, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT). The market saw Chinese brand BYD begin to establish a presence with  759 cars hitting UK roads compared to 34 a year ago. Smart saw a six-fold increase ...

Adrian Hallmark, former chairman and CEO of Bentley Motors, has joined Aston Martin. He will join Aston Martin as an executive director of the company, and its CEO, no later than 1 October. Amedeo Felisa will remain as CEO of Aston Martin until then. Hallmark said: “Like many working within the ultra-luxury segment, I have admired the continued transformation of ...

Bentley Motors has launched its third Extraordinary Women mentorship programme which will see eight students from the UK and Qatar selected for one-on-one mentorship and a week-long visit to Bentley’s headquarters in Crewe, England in June. The programme focuses on female students in the fields of engineering, design, technology, and business. It was developed to encourage women to consider various ...

H.R. Owen first announced its plans for a multi-franchise site in Hatfield in 2021, bringing together several of its luxury and high-performance brands under one roof. Now, in 2023 the dealership is beginning to open, and will eventually house Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati. For now, H.R. Owen has officially opened the Bentley showroom. The new flagship site is the ...