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Ford Retail record profits

FORD Retail has reported a record-breaking 2009 turnover of £1.15bn that sees it return to profit. The Ford-owned UK retail group made a pre-tax profit of £15.7m, reversing a £0.85m loss for year-end 2008. A sales increase of more than 7 percent helped this performance, and led chairman and chief exec Chris Hayden to say [...]

	Toyota sets sales record
TOYOTA dealers have helped the firm handle recent highly publicised recall events by setting a new sales record. The Toyota Prius has just recorded its best-ever monthly sales record in the UK. 538 models were sold in February 2010 – more than double the previous best score set in February 2008. This, said the firm, [...]

	JCT600 sells 600 a week
JCT600 sold a record total of 632 retail cars over the last 7 day period as customer confidence booms. The Yorkshire car dealer says the past week has been the most successful in its 60-year history. Cars sold were worth a total of more than £10 million – and 2 dealerships each contributed 100 sales [...]

	Car dealer busiest week
JANUARY has provided rich pickings for one car dealer which has experienced a record-breaking week. Auction4Cars says the second week of January has seen a huge 40 percent like-for-like sales increase. This, says the car-dealer-only firm, proves that internet retailing is the way forward. ‘January has been a very busy month for us, and promises [...]

	SMA breaks record
SMA Leeds set a company-best record for weekly sales – then, the very next week, broke it again! The latest total has seen 1204 cars sold in seven days. What’s more, the numbers keep rising. It comes just 6 months into the new stewardship of owners Bob Anderson and Kevin Bann. They’d set a long-term [...]

		Dealers’ 10yr car a day
		MOTORPOINT dealer Dave Stephenson has just made his 5000th sale – giving him a remarkable record. He’s sold a car every day for 10 years! The eye-opening figure earns him ‘super salesman’ status at Motorpoint – where he’s the only salesman to ever have sold more than 100 cars in a week. Based at the [...]
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		Car Dealer footie record
		DAIHATSU car dealer Conders Garage Ltd has supported a fundraising run by a children’s charity. The Free Kicks Foundation raised over £3500 – by visiting all 92 English Football League clubs… in 92 hours! Charity founder Steve Thorpe undertook the huge challenge, in a Daihatsu Materia loaned by the Peterborough car dealer. Alastair Hayden from [...]
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		Supersale’s interest!
		RELAUNCHED car auction house the Aston Barclay Group enjoyed an ‘extraordinary’ turnout at its maiden sale. The Shropshire centre boasted a record attendance of 180 signed-up buyers – breaking all previous records. They all helped achieve an overall return of 99 percent CAP Clean on the day… with some cars boasting a 125 percent CAP [...]
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