It’s a bit more than a few straws in the wind when Vertu buys a £35 million-a-year online van dealer, when Evans Halshaw puts more emphasis on its Vauxhall Van Business Centres, when the SMMT, NFDA...

  SERVICE PLANS DOUBLE CUSTOMER RETENTION, SAYS KIA PROFITS STEADY AT AUTO RETAIL GROUP EVANS HALSHAW OPENS FOUR VAUXHALL VAN CENTRES SWANSWAY AND MG CONFIRMED FOR AUTO RETAIL Q1 BRIEFING...

Pendragon has announced that its founder and CEO, Trevor Finn, is to retire from the company in the new year. In a statement to shareholders issued on Friday evening, the group said Finn had “agreed...

SCOTLAND’S NEW CAR SALES LAG REST OF UK SMES PAY MORE CORPORATION TAX THAN BIG BUSINESS PENDRAGON POISED TO OPEN SHREWSBURY CAR STORE INCHCAPE BUYS DERBY’S CATTLE MARKET ROLL UP – SWANSWAY...

Auto retailer Pendragon has submitted planning permission to Gloucester City Council to develop land in the Barnwood area of the city. The local Gloucester Citizen newspaper reports that the...

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By Steve Johnson This is the first in a new series of features looking at best practice online for automotive retailers. The series will build on the information contained in the Auto Retail Network...

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Pendragon has acquired an industrial unit in Peterborough, with plans to develop the site for its Evans Halshaw ‘Car Store’ business. Currently operating three Car Store sites in Birmingham, Slough...

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Pendragon, the UK’s largest auto retail group, has announced an ambitious plan to grow its business by 40 sites over the next five years. The move comes on the back of half year profits well ahead of...

Got a moment to spare? Enter ‘used car salesman’ into your favoured search engine, taking care also to select the ‘images’ button. Try it now. The results are perhaps predictable – but...

Sold a used car lately? Of course you have. Allow me to rephrase my question: what I mean is, have you done as some of your customers do – draft an advertisement, take pictures and then post them on...

I know it’s slightly unusual but I’d like to address this blog to Adrian who works the sales showroom at Evans Halshaw in Milton Keynes. The rest of you can go do something else – or...

The UK’s biggest auto retailer, Pendragon, issued a reassuring interim management statement covering the four months to the end of October. The company said it was confident that this...

Shares in Pendragon jumped sharply after the company used its annual results announcement to confirm it had reached a refinancing settlement with its funders and avoided a December 2008 covenant test....