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esure completes Gocompare acquisition
- 31/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
esure has announced that the acquisition of Gocompare is now complete. Further to the announcement on 8 December 2014 that esure Group had conditionally agreed to acquire the outstanding 50% of GoCompare.com Holdings Ltd for a consideration of £95 million, and the subsequent announcement on 23 February 2015 that [...] -
Congestion has ‘worsened considerably’
- 31/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Traffic congestion in cities across the UK has worsened considerably over the past year, according to a major new report out today. The fifth annual Traffic Index from TomTom shows average journeys in 2014 took 29% longer than they would in free-flowing traffic – up from a 27% delay in 2013. Traffic jams in 14 [...] -
RAC launches free listing service
- 31/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Car advertising on the raccars.co.uk website is to become completely free for dealers from today in a move that looks set to ‘revolutionise’ the car portal sector. The change – which could save the average dealer an estimated £50,000 per year – is designed to lower the cost of selling cars for dealers and [...] -
Glass’s to revisit Leaf forecasts
- 31/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Following the news that 99.99% of Nissan Leaf battery units remain entirely fit for purpose, Glass’s has stated it will be ‘looking again at its residual value forecasts’. The Nissan Leaf failure rate of the battery power unit is less than 0.01 percent - or just three units in total - a fraction of the [...] -
Laser Tools selects Brown Brothers
- 31/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Brown Brothers Distribution has been selected as an official partner to the Laser Tools Racing team for the 2015 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championships. The Laser Tools Racing team are racing in the British Touring Car Championship in a Mercedes A Class for the 2015 season, which will be driven by 18 year old [...] -
MG opens Piccadilly dealership
- 31/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
MG has announced it will open a prestigious multi-million pound flagship dealership in the heart of London’s Piccadilly. MG’s showroom will become a centre of excellence for the iconic 91-year-old brand which is Britain’s fastest growing marque. This is the latest and most significant move in a major [...] -
Quindell confirms Slater and Gordon sale
- 30/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Quindell has today entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement to dispose of the Professional Services Division to Slater and Gordon Ltd for an initial cash consideration of £637 million. Quindell has announced that it has today entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement to dispose of the [...] -
Public set to increase insurance spend
- 30/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
People are expected to spend more money on insurance products according to the latest CBI/PWC Financial Services Survey, which was published today. For the first time in a year, optimism improved for general insurers, with many reporting a solid growth in business volumes for the second consecutive quarter. [...] -
IMI launches eLearning resources
- 30/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) will launch a suite of eLearning resources to support body repair and paint apprenticeships at four road show events in April. The IMI’s eLearning system is currently utilised in over 200 colleges in the UK for light vehicle training. It provides study aids and multimedia [...] -
Fleets gain technology insight
- 30/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Thatcham Research has provided some of the UK’s leading fleet operators with an insight into evolving vehicle technology at its Stop the Crash: Fleet Brake Off event. The track day event, held at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, offered an insight into autonomous emergency braking (AEB) and other advanced driver [...]