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Peoples Automotive has been presented with the BYD UK retailer of the year Award. The dealer group is ranked 55 in the Motor Trader Top 200 with annual turnover of £306.8m. The group has its BYD dealership on Orrell Lane, Bootle selling the Dolphin, Atto 3, Seal, Seal UDM-I and Sealion 7 BYD models. “Have just returned from Shenzhen, China, ...

Independent Ford retailer Peoples has reported record profits. Pre-tax profits climbed to £8.48m (up 6.2% on the previous year). Turnover dropped by 4.8% to £275.6m and Peoples saw a return on sales of 3%. Commercial vehicle sales were up by 2% against a UK market average that saw a decline of 24.2%. Brian Gilda, chairman of Peoples said: “Despite the worldwide ...

On this Saturday’s episode of MotortradeRadio.com, Philip Nothard of Cox Automotive is joined by Curtis Hutchinson, editor at Motor Trader to discuss the latest headlines, Pendragon is carrying out a strategic review of its business as it announced that underlying pre-tax profits for the year to 31 December 2017 will fall 20% to £60m compared to £75.4m in 2016. A ...

A big push on commercial vehicles helped Ford dealer group Peoples generate record turnover in the year to 31 July 2017 although profits dipped. The group saw pre-tax profits fall 10.4% to £6.32m on record turnover up 6.1% to £276.6m for the period. In what it described as “an increasingly tough commercial environment” the group chaired by Brian Gilda (pictured), ...

Peoples has sold its Accrington Ford dealership to Oldham Motor Company (OMC) for an undisclosed sum. Peoples has owned the site since 2013. Its finance director Stewart Ramsay said the disposal would allow the group to concentrate on the three other dealerships it operates in the north-west, all based in the greater Liverpool area. The group, rated 50 in the ...

On this Saturday’s episode of Motor Trade Radio cap hpi’s Philip Nothard welcomes the return of Derek Blair, show host, as he runs through what’s been keeping him so busy with RadarVideo.co.uk over recent weeks. Motor Trader headlines covered this week include: The first dealers signed for the 2017 London Motor Show are revealed The monthly cap hpi market survey, ...

Peoples Ford, the largest privately-owned solus Blue Oval group in Europe, has announced record breaking turnover and profit for the year-ended 31 July 2016. Pre-tax profits for the year increased 27.9% to £7.05m on turnover that grew 10.1% to £260.6m. Year on year car and van sales rose 5% to 18,354 vehicles. The Falkirk-based group said this marked its fifth ...

Peoples, the Liverpool-based Ford group, has released record year-end turnover and profits. The company’s annual report for the year ended 31 July 2015 shows pre-tax profits up 26.3% to £5.508m, on turnover that grew by 15.5% to £236.7m. Sales across the group, which comprises four dealerships in the north-west of England and three in Scotland, totalled 17,447 vehicles, a year-on-year ...

People’s has appointed Nicola Gilda as its new strategy and operations director. Gilda had played a leading role in developing and shaping the structure and direction of Peoples Group since her appointment to its board 10 years ago. She has been with Peoples Group since leaving school, combining her academic studies at the University of Strathclyde with motor retailing. “I’m ...

Ford dealer Peoples turned in a strong performance in the year to 31 July 2014 with pre tax profits up 7.6% to £4.36m on turnover up 10.2% to £205m. In its just published annual report it said Peoples sold 16,129 vehicles during the year, a rise of 8.3%. Gilda said the results, flagged up in Motor Trader in May, had ...