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Weekly Briefing: Why are family run car dealers closing? Plus Big’s dressing down on BBC Watchdog

Robert Parker-JonesNews1 week ago7 Views

In this week’s Car Dealer Briefing James Baggott rounds up the motor trade news you cannot afford to miss.

In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he asks with the closure of yet another small independent franchised car dealer, is it the end of the road for the family-run firms? 

Elsewhere, Cinch opens another dealership, Big Motoring World gets a dressing down by BBC Watchdog and there’s more worrying showroom closures.

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Also featured in this week’s briefing are:

  • February new car sales figures
  • Used car prices up
  • Tom Hartley’s Harrods deal
  • Group 1 buys Johnsons sites
  • Marshall job losses
  • Inchcape’s profits

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There’s also a list of the top 10 most popular stories on the CarDealerMagazine.co.uk website this week which always makes for interesting reading as you can see what has piqued everyone else’s interest too.

Find it on the Substack website now.

 

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