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Motorpoint cuts ribbon on 20th site
- 26/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Independent retailer Motorpoint has officially opened the doors of its 20th store. Based in Ipswich, the new site strengthens Motorpoint’s footprint in the East of England, where it already has its Motorpoint Peterborough store and preparation centre, and has already created around 30 new jobs. Simon Castle, [...] -
Motorpoint agrees training partnership with Skillnet
- 09/03/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Motorpoint has entered into a new partnership with Skillnet to nurture the talents of future generations of apprentices across its business. The new partnership means Motorpoint will work with Skillnet to create a future-proofed, cutting-edge apprenticeship programme to develop its staff across a range of [...] -
Motorpoint names new COO
- 17/02/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Independent retailer Motorpoint has appointed Kalwant Singh as its new chief operating officer (COO). He joins from Dreams, where he spent three years as COO. In his new role, Singh will focus on driving operational performance and strengthening quality standards to ensure the Motorpoint customer experience [...] -
Costs spiral for owners of older cars
- 11/11/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
More than half of motorists with older cars are holding on to them for longer because of the cost-of-living crisis. A Motorpoint survey of 2,000 UK drivers with cars that are more than 10 years old revealed that 57% said they will keep their cars for longer to ease financial pressures. However, the cost of [...] -
Motorpoint cuts ribbon on new Scottish site
- 05/10/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Motorpoint has opened a huge new showroom in Edinburgh, boasting a stock of more than 400 vehicles. This has been achieved despite a nationwide shortage of new and nearly new vehicles. Richard Start, regional detail director at Motorpoint Edinburgh, said: “We’ve pulled together an exciting line-up of [...] -
Motorpoint launches new recruitment drive
- 17/01/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Up to 30 new jobs are being created in Maidstone by Motorpoint. The new roles will be in sales, service, support and vehicle preparation. Robert Jones, head of retail operations at Motorpoint Maidstone said: “We are excited about the opening of our new store in Maidstone in late February 2022. We are recruiting [...] -
Motorpoint expansion to create dozen Scottish jobs
- 25/06/2021
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Motorpoint will create over a dozen new jobs when it opens a purpose-built vehicle preparation centre in Motherwell later this summer. The retailer is relocating its existing centre to the new eight-acre facility in early August to support ambitious growth plans for the business across Scotland. The majority of [...] -
Motorists support smoking ban
- 11/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Over 90% of motorists support Government plans to ban smoking in cars with children according to a new poll by Motorpoint. An online survey by the UK car supermarket found an overwhelming 92.8% of people quizzed agreed with the introduction of the new law that would criminalise smoking in cars containing anyone [...]