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HARRATTS has just opened another new car dealer in Leeds with the creation of Peugeot Leeds. In doing so, it has added 25 new jobs to the national car dealer tally. MD Shaun Harratt reckons it is a natural next step for the car dealer group: ‘We already have a very successful Peugeot dealership in [...]

VOLVO dealer Harratts of Huddersfield says overall car sales have doubled since this time last year. Like for like sales of new cars are up since 82 percent in a year. What’s more, used car sales have more than doubled in the same period. It reinforces Harratts’ position as the UK’s second-largest Volvo dealer, and [...]

HARRATTS of Yorkshire last week celebrated a quarter-century with the Swedish firm by throwing a party. Volvo’s second-largest UK dealer group held its biggest ever launch event to introduce the new S60 to buyers. The bash also previewed a special series of ‘Ride And Drive’ days that commence today at Wakefield’s Bagden Hall Hotel. These [...]

HARRATTS has opened the 12th dealer in its territory with the launch of city centre outlet Peugeot Leeds. Doors will open of the Scott Hall Road retailer next month. It is big news for local employees – Harratts has taken over the territory of Robins & Day Horsforth and Evans Halshaw Central Leeds. These employees [...]

HARRATTS Nissan Sheffield has quadrupled its sales in 2009 and outperformed every other Harratts dealer. The dealer, which opened in January 2008, recorded a massive 427 percent rise in sales for 2009. Impressive stuff, said the firm’s directors, given how the UK car industry has contracted by 6 percent in the same period. Shaun Harratt, [...]

HARRATTS Mitsubishi has just appointed a new sales manager who has worked through the ranks at the firm. Peter Davies joined the firm in 1998, on the Barnsley dealer’s opening day. Starting out as an apprentice technician, he has now worked up to the post of sales manager 12 years later – to the delight [...]

HARRATTS Motor Group has launched a new used car dealer site offering part-exchange motors to the public. The auction-price cars will be sold from a dedicated forecourt at its car dealer in Barnsley. At least 40 cars will permanently be offered, as the car dealer bypasses the traditional PX-to-auction route. The public will be allowed [...]

HARRATTS of Yorkshire now has a starring team of 11, with the opening of its latest new car dealer. The family-owned firm has just opened a Honda new car dealer, next to its existing Volvo site. This, it says, is one of the largest independent Volvo groups in the country. In the process, it has [...]