The chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee Robert Halfon MP has visited Bristol Street Motors Harlow Peugeot Service Centre to hear about a £1m investment in the site.
Has the online used car retail bubble burst or have the UK’s established car retailers’ disrupted disruptors like Cazoo and Carzam with their ability to evolve and adapt to cater for the digital car buyer?
Andy Johnson, group property director at Vertu Motors, has announced his retirement from the AM100 retail group.
Bristol Street Motors sales executive Joe Sharland has raised almost £10,500 for charity after completing a gruelling 12-day trek through the Himalayan Mountains.
Vertu Motors is installing defibrillators in all its dealerships at a cost of more than £100,000.
Jass Singh, the “pioneering” CMA General Manager of Bristol Street Motors Sunderland and Hexham Vauxhall, is retiring after 14 years with the company.
Vertu Motors has completed a £2 million share buy back transaction to boost its employee benefit trust” as chief executive Robert Forrester increased his own shareholding in the car retail PLC.
Bristol Street Motors Motornation has opened its latest dealership in Stockton-on-Tees following a £500,000 investment from the group.
A Vertu Motors ‘book club’ which helps to develop the PLC’s leadership and strategic direction is stuck on a challenging chapter as it targets a pinpoint focus on customer retention in 2022.
Vertu Motors PLC leveraged car retail’s “sector tailwinds” to deliver a 41.9% rise in turnover and 228% rise in adjusted pre-tax profits in a record-breaking set of 2021 annual financial results.
James Collingwood was offered a job at Bristol Street Motors by chief executive Robert Forrester following a TV appearance 10 years ago.
Vertu Motors has invested £2 million to create a new multi-franchise Macklin Motors car dealership in Dunfermline.
Vertu Motors has declared that its promotion of IT director Bruce Clark into the newly-created role of chief technology officer marks “a further step change in its focus on technology".
Automotive retailers were obliged to accelerate their omnichannel retail plans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but another by-product of this development has been the demise of the haggle.
Vertu Motors has launched a recruitment drive to attract staff to four new Toyota franchised car dealerships after taking over the brand’s West of Scotland territory from Arnold Clark.
Bristol Street Motors has launched its own W Series race team and has increased its support for the W Series' Excelr8 Motorsport team.
Vertu Motors has revealed that its 2022 pre-tax profits will have risen by more than 200% in 2022 as it forecast a year-end total of “not less than £75 million” in a trading update issued this morning.
Newspaper The Times has criticised dealer groups which it says will post "record annual profits" this year for not paying back the state support they received when COVID lockdowns closed their showrooms.
Vertu Motors will take over from Arnold Clark as Toyota GB’s franchised car retail group for the West of Scotland – creating four new car dealerships to serve the brand.
A Vertu Motors employee joined the Premier League of fund-raisers by securing five-figure charity donations from England footballers as the PLC celebrated raising almost £42,000 for a range of good causes through a car raffle.
