Over the past 10 years, multi-franchising has increased by almost 12% across all car brands in UK automotive retail, according to the Networks Report 2023 due out this week. The report, previously...

The UK’s retail groups now have a total of 4,424 sales points – a year-on-year fall of 53. That was less of a drop than a year ago, when 191 outlets closed, but the numbers were bolstered by the...

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Away from all the coronavirus chaos, the UK automotive retailing industry has some interesting tales to tell The 2020 Auto Retail Network Franchising Report shines a fascinating light on the industry...

The UK had 71 fewer sales points in January 2020 compared to a year ago according to Auto Market Data figures, which report a total of 4,668. This represents a slighter fall than the previous two...

The UK’s total number of new car sales points fell by 93 between January 2018 and January 2019, from 4,832 to 4,739. This represents a softer fall than in the previous year’s 216-point drop, but...

The total number of new car sales points increased from 4,840 in January 2016 to 5,011 at the beginning of 2017, which follows a fall of seven sales points in 2015. This is one of the key findings of...

The total number of car franchised sales points fell by seven from 4,847 in January 2015 to 4,840 in January 2016, which follows a fall of 73 sales points the previous year. This is one of the key...

Compiling our annual Franchising Report is always a bit of a challenge. I’m not going to bore you with all the details, but one of the issues is that we rely to a large extent on the manufacturers to...