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Aston Martin to cut 500 jobs
- 04/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Aston Martin has announced 500 job losses as it tries to reduce costs by £10m. The company is also going to reduce production and remove non-critical expenditure in areas such as supply chain numbers, site footprint, marketing and travel. A company statement said: “Aston Martin is also reducing costs and [...] -
Lookers announces 1,500 job losses
- 04/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Lookers dealership group will cut 1,500 jobs in a bid to reduce costs by £50m. It has announced it will close, consolidate or re-franchise 12 dealerships, following the 15 dealerships it identified for closure last year. It is understood the job losses will come in the second half of the year, with [...] -
Mindset course goes digital
- 04/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Auto-Motivate has moved its Mindset Development Course online and cut the price by almost a half. The course is designed to ensure employees are in the best frame of mind for returning to work after a long lockdown period. Now available via Zoom, the three two-hour sessions cost £200 compared to the £350 [...] -
Commuters turn away from public transport
- 04/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
More than 60% of people will turn their backs on public transport from now on. A new survey carried out by Motorpoint found that the coronavirus pandemic has changed mindsets with 60.2% of those questioned saying they will not return to buses and trains. These figures chime with the increasing demand for cheaper [...] -
Car buyers go mobile
- 04/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Almost 80% of vehicles sold in the last 12 months have been over a smartphone. According to research from BuyaCar.co.uk, 78.5% of the car orders it has processed in the last year were at least partly ordered over a mobile. Three years ago, 41.4% of orders were made over a desktop or laptop computer, with mobiles [...] -
ECP introduces back-to-work pack
- 04/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Euro Car Parts has created a new product bundle to help garages access essential cleaning equipment and PPE. Its Back-to-Work-Pack includes a 500ml antibacterial hand sanitising gel, a 500ml surface disinfectant spray, 25 pairs of gloves, 25 large, heavy duty refuse bags and six 2-ply blue rolls. Colin Cottrell, [...] -
Groupe PSA donates 50,000 masks to NHS
- 03/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Groupe PSA UK is supplying 50,000 face masks to the NHS this week. The donation will benefit NHS hospitals and a number of care homes close to the company’s two UK manufacturing plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port, and its offices in Coventry. They will be shared between the Countess of Chester and Arrow Park [...] -
Global sales down by a quarter
- 03/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Volvo Cars sold 44,830 cars in May, down 25.5 per cent compared with the same month last year. In the January-to-May period, global sales reached 208,479 cars, down 25 per cent compared with the same period last year. Sales in Europe during the month of May continued to be impacted by restricted movements as a [...] -
VW and Ford strengthen autonomous ties
- 03/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Volkswagen is investing $2.6bn (£2bn) in Argo AI, a self-driving start-up tightly aligned with Ford. The investment includes a $1bn cash injection while also merging its own $1.6bn autonomous intelligent driving unit into Argo. This is part of a wider alliance between VW and Ford to jointly develop autonomous [...] -
Online auction numbers surging
- 03/06/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The National Association of Motor Auctions (NAMA) has reported buoyant results from members, with numbers participating in bidding online increasing daily. Louise Wallis, head of NAMA, said: “Hundreds of thousands of vehicles are transacted online each year by our members. Through the period of lockdown, members [...]