Speakers at Driving Digital 2024: The Dealership of the Future are Graeme Potts, CEO of Eden Motor Group; Dale Wyatt, director of Suzuki GB; Mark Busby, commercial director of Hendy Group; Owen Edwards, automotive business consultant at Grant Thornton; Ian Plummer, commercial director of Auto Trader; and Neil Addley, managing director of JudgeService.
A valued resource for anyone seeking to understand the status quo and learn more about future trends – Cox Automotive’s 2023/24 Insight Report includes extensive analysis from automotive voices in the UK, Europe and around the world. Cox Automotive remains the only industry player to provide detailed predictions for both the new and used car markets for 2024 – which are included in the report.
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit, and growing pessimism towards the outlook for the UK economy all undermine consumer confidence in the domestic market, not helped by the current cost of living crisis. In addition, the energy price cap could rise to over £4,200 in January 2023, putting further pressure on household finances.
THE distribution and retailing of vehicles, otherwise known as the auto-downstream industry, is set to change as much in the next five years as it has in the last 50. That’s the view of both Cox Automotive and Grant Thornton in the latest issue of Cox Automotive’s AutoFocus report. According to Philip Nothard, Insight and Strategy Director at Cox Automotive, [...]
Dealers must take a short-term approach to immediate challenges, as well as a long-term view of paradigm shifts within the marketplace, the report provides a strong platform for dealers building into 2021 and beyond.
Group delays its 2019 again and follows announcements that it is to cut a further 12 dealerships from its portfolio and 1,500 jobs.
WHILE the new car market might be reaching PCP saturation point, the used car market remains a huge untapped resource for PCP finance, said Owen Edwards Associate Director Corporate Finance, Grant Thornton at the VRA seminar in Birmingham, November 22, 2018. Edwards said that while car usership was one for the future, over the next five years, buyers appeared to [...]
