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Briefing: Why are big car dealer group accounts late? Vertu’s name change and more results

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Time 9:40 am, October 18, 2024

In this week’s Car Dealer Weekly Briefing – the subscriber only newsletter – James Baggott reports back from London (again) and another set of awards.

This week he’s been at the Auto Trader Retailer Awards where the top 1% of dealers using the platform were handed gongs.

He wonders why the big car dealer groups have been late submitting their accounts, ponders Vertu’s name change and rounds up the car dealer accounts that have been handed in on time.


The weekly newsletter is published every Friday to subscribers and delivered directly to your email inbox. You can also read it on the Substack app.

Also featured in this week’s briefing and getting our editor-in-chief’s take:

  • Another FCA investigation
  • Motors data tools
  • BMW on ICE ban
  • Vauxhall ‘super confident’
  • Cotswold Motor Group
  • Ancaster Group
  • Rybrook
  • Johnsons Cars
  • Completely Motoring administration

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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.

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