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The Motor Trader Top 200 Franchised Dealer Groups for 2024 features in the July August print edition of Motor Trader. It shows a sector experiencing huge interest in dealer groups from foreign investors, ongoing consolidation and a market building momentum after contraction in the pandemic. At the top of the listing there has been big change in ownership. Pendragon was ...

Sytner is conducting a major overhaul of its used car Carshop business looking at rebranding of the stores to become Sytner Select Approved Used Cars superstores. It is also talking to an unnamed party with a view to calling some of the Carshop stores as a going concern and shutting one outlet. The Sytner move reflects trading in a smaller ...

Arnold Clark, CarShop, Carsa and SM Specialist Cars dealer groups will be exhibiting and selling used cars at this summer’s British Motor Show. The retailers will display vehicles in the Motors Dealer Showcase, a new attraction for 2024, where visitors will have the opportunity to view and buy used cars as well as discuss their motoring requirements with representatives from ...

CarShop is planning to build a used car supermarket in Stoke-on-Trent as it scales up its UK business. The planning application to Stoke-on-Trent City Council in the pipeline since 2020 proposes the supermarket along with areas for aftersales and MOT testing facilities. The supermarket is proposed for a long vacant former Vulcan Pottery 6.8 acre site in the city. Carshop ...

CarShop has announced that number of appointments at its first Express store in Leicester have doubled and its sales figures have increased by 60% in the last four months. Michele Williams, the store’s Branch Manager, said: “Of course, we were a bit apprehensive to start with. Would people know we were a car store without the hundreds of cars sitting ...

CarShop has announced a major recruitment drive. The roles it is recruiting for span across its UK locations, but the highest number of vacancies can be found in Leighton Buzzard and Warrington. Positions available include vehicle technicians, MOT testers, bodyshop technicians, SMART repairers and painters. This follows a period of growth for the retailer, which has this year launched its ...

CarShop has announced that its fourth Yorkshire store, CarShop Express Halifax in Shelf, will open its doors to the public on Monday 1st November. The store will be situated on a site that’s already owned by CarShop’s parent company, Sytner Group, and has been allocated to CarShop to support the retailer’s ambitious expansion plans. This follows a string of  Express ...

CarShop has chosen Grovebury Road in Leighton Buzzard as the location of its second Express store in the UK. The store is set to open on Monday 13th September. This follows CarShop’s first Express store, which opened in Leicester at the start of May. While the Leighton Buzzard Express store will be the same as CarShop Express Leicester in that ...

CarShop has announced the appointment of Carl Jackson as its new regional operations director. Jackson has worked with CarShop for almost a decade, having joined the company in 2012 as business manager for the retailer’s Cardiff store. He spent three years in this role, before being promoted to retail operations manager – a role he held for another three years ...

CarShop has acquired a 4.6 acre site in Kenway Retail Park, Willenhall, which currently belongs to Autoworld, to house its thirteenth UK store. The site, which is located off Armstrong Way, is set to officially open its doors to the public in September this year. It would feature a forecourt holding up to 400 vehicles, a compact store with customer ...