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John Cleland is one of the UK’s best known racing drivers, winning the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) in 1989 and 1995. In all that time he has successfully run the family business started by his father, taking on the dealer principal role in 1974 aged just 22. He terminated his Vauxhall franchise 15 years later, despite being a works ...

In February 2015 Shropshire based dealer group Greenhous purchased two Ford dealerships in Newtown and Welshpool in mid-Wales from WR Davies. Over the last 18 months the Newtown Ford business has been redeveloped to accommodate a new Transit Centre. To help run the group’s first Ford outlets Greenhous employed Tony Mellish, who had wide fleet experience wiht Ford. Initially fleet ...

The opening of a new Seat showroom in Solihull this month adds another franchise to the diverse portfolio of the expanding Midlands-based Arbury Motor Group which formed with just one Peugeot outlet in 2000. Now, 16 years on, the group owns five Peugeot sites, together with two Nissan outlets and Skoda, Citroën and Fiat centres. It has also opened a ...

The September plate-change is an important one for dealers, typically accounting for around 400,000 new car sales compared to between 150,000 and 200,000 registrations in an average month. But while big numbers are important, so is the quality of business. We asked dealers how their sales performed during the month, taking a close look at retail business and focusing on ...

Neil Simpson started working in car retailing as a boy, assisting his father at the used car business and petrol station in Colne, Lancashire, founded by his grandfather in 1945. He sold his first car at the age of 16 and has never looked back. Before taking over the family business in 2001 he carved out a career as a ...