Hatfields to shut Sheffield Jaguar site to focus on Wakefield operation

Dealer group Hatfields is shutting its Sheffield dealership on Sharrow Vale Road.

Managing director Gareth Williams told The Star said the closure was due to the site and its make-up was “simply not capable of taking that leap into the future.”

It was not a “reflection on the performance or abilities” of staff, he added, and they sold more cars in Sheffield.

“Business is booming, this is not a knee-jerk economic reaction. The showroom in Sheffield is on two levels and the workshop is very old fashioned. Demolition would be required. Wakefield has good facilities. Hopefully we can take Sheffield customers with us.

Williams said the nature of car buying was changing and the new Jaguars would require fewer “representation points” in an online world.

Established by Ernest Hatfield in 1922, Hatfields is a family-run business operating Jaguar and Land Rover retailers across the North of England and Midlands.

The holding company Mclean and Appleton is rated 44 in the Motor Trader Top 200 Dealer Groups with annual turnover of £343m.