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ESSEX Auto Group is so confident in the future of internet on smartphones, it has financed a new website. The booming popularity of phones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry have seen the car dealer approve the new web development. ‘The internet is shifting off the desktop and into the hands of consumers who are [...]

ESSEX Auto Group will launch a brand new Kia Motors franchise at its Lakeside outlet, just before Christmas. The Car Dealer Magazine Eward winner starts trading with its latest addition from 21 December. Kia joins Ford and Mazda at Lakeside, and adds to the car dealers’ existing Kia relationship at Southend. It’s through this link [...]

Winner: EssexAutoGroup.com Produced by: G-Forces Runner up: ArnoldClark.com HERE’S one for the Essex boys and girls to celebrate! Multi franchise operator Essex Auto Group picks up this year’s Eward for Franchised Dealer Website of the Year. The firm – which holds franchises for Ford, Mazda, Fiat, Kia and Volvo – has a stunningly simple, but [...]

VOLVO wants 110 UK car dealers by the end of 2010: with two more new openings, it’s well on track. The Swedish company is now represented in Chesterfield and Billericay. These new Volvo dealers will be joined by ‘a number of other dealers’ during 2010, says the firm: some existing, some new to the franchise. [...]