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Nissan car sales have grown for six straight years although managing director Jim Wright sees 2015 as being a year of consolidation with rising dealer profitability Nissan started 2015 strongly on the back of six successive years of growth, culminating in a new record in 2014 when car sales grew 17% to 138,338 units, a remarkable surge for a volume ...

Just 14 months into the job and Vauxhall boss, Tim Tozer, has lost no time in changing the way dealers operate to drive higher profitability into the network Vauxhall and its dealers started the year well. Car registrations in 2014 were up 3.7% and van sales increased by 9.7%, a combined total of over 301,000 vehicles. Importantly, it was a ...

With Marshall Motor Holdings formerly floating today on the London Stock Exchange, the first dealer group to do so since Cambria Automobiles in 2006, Motor Trader was the first publication to talk to CEO Daksh Gupta about what prompted the move and what his plans are for the group. Gupta sees the flotation as giving the group the funding it ...

Growing sales for six years, a new SUV in the pipeline but a miserable showing in the recent NFDA dealer attitude survey. We ask Neil Williamson why? On the surface Seat is doing rather well. It started the process of revitalising its car line-up two years ago with the new generation Leon and the process continues this month with the ...

Triangle of Chesterfield, a small privately run solus site, provides a textbook study of how to grow profitability with a volume franchise.