NEWS

Marshall gets VW & Kia

FAMILY-owned dealer group Marshall has bought F. Cross & Son’s businesses in Grimsby and Scunthorpe. The deal comprises of Grimsby Volkswagen (passenger cars); Scunthorpe Volkswagen (passenger cars and commercial vehicles); and Scunthorpe Kia. It also includes authorised repairer businesses for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Grimsby and Renault in Scunthorpe. Around 120 former F Cross & Son [...]

	Another Marshall Honda
DEALER group Marshall’s latest acquisition of a Honda business in Harrogate has made the group Honda’s largest partner. The family-owned dealer group completed its acquisition of the business today from Pendragon Plc for an undisclosed sum. Marshall has represented Honda for 19 years and this new addition brings the group’s total number of Honda businesses [...]

	Dealers backing BEN
THE majority of the top ten dealer groups are now taking part in Dealers Backing BEN, the automotive charity has announced. Dealers Backing BEN is the charity’s flagship sustainable income initiative. Sytner, Inchcape, Lookers, Jardine Motor Group, Ford Retail, Vertu and Marshall have all signed up and in addition more than 20 other major organisations [...]

	Grantham Volvo is No.1
MARSHALL Motor Group’s Volvo dealership in Grantham has been named as the top Volvo dealership in the UK. The family-owned business’ Grantham Volvo showroom won the prestigious, beating 121 other dealers in the process. Daksh Gupta, chief executive of Marshall (pictured) said: ‘This is tremendous news for Marshall but especially for our great team at Grantham. [...]

	Marshall handed award
MARSHALL Leasing has been awarded a customer service award by the Association of Car Fleet Operators. The vehicle funding and management arm of Marshall Motor Group was named as the Fleet Service Company of the Year. The company was given the award due to it providing ‘the best overall combination of quality products, service, integrity, [...]

		Kia Bedford opens
		MARSHALL Motor Group has just announced the opening of its second Kia car dealer business in Bedford. A £300,000 upgrade of its premises on Woburn Road in Bedford will provide facilities for Kia. Christopher Walkinshaw, business development director of Marshall, said: ‘We are delighted to be extending our relationship with Kia less than a year [...]
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		Volvo and Marshall grow
		VOLVO has boosted its relationship with Marshall Group with the opening of yet another car dealer. Marshall now represents Volvo in Nottingham which takes the firm’s Volvo franchises to 4. What’s more, it’s the 8th new franchise added to the group in the last 12 months! Nottingham joins existing Marshall Volvo sites in Cambridge, Peterborough [...]
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		Charity cash raised
		PRINCE’S Trust beneficiaries have been boosted by a 6-month campaign by two industry big-hitters. HPI and Marshall Motor Group have been donating 50p for every Driveaway policy signed up. The total has just broken the £100,000 mark! Grateful recipient of the cash is the Prince’s Trust Business Programme, which provides loans to youngsters just starting [...]
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		Car buyer talk gets £1k
		MARSHALL Peugeot has just handed over the firm’s first £1000 prize to a customer giving feedback. The group has pledged to send everyone who makes a sales enquiry, at any Marshall car dealer, an evaluation form. Filling it in, whether they buy or not, enters the customer into a prize draw… and the quarterly prize [...]
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		July SMMT sales: Dealers
		CAR dealers have been buoyed by the latest SMMT new car sales figures – but are wary of getting carried away. Marshall chief executive Daksh Gupta said everyone was ‘delighted to be hearing some positive news being reported about our industry. ‘However, we must remember that we are now comparing sales against the period in [...]
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		Marshall’s Pug boost
		MARSHALL has confirmed it is to invest a cool £500,000 in upgrading its St. Neots Peugeot car dealer. The news comes after last week’s announcement that the Huntingdon Peugeot dealership is to close – rationalisation that chief executive Daksh Gupta says is positive for the business. ‘We had two Peugeot dealerships within 9 miles of [...]
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