AUTO RETAILERS ‘ON BRINK OF £16bn DCA CRISIS’ FCA BLAMED FOR DCA CRISIS JETTEN LEAVES SEAT; COLLIER LEAVES JACKSONS MARSHALL 2024 PROFIT DOWN OLDEST MERCEDES-BENZ RETAILER CLOSES CAFFYNS SELLS...

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Stratstone Land Rover Stockton, on the Preston Farm Industrial Estate, is up for sale for £5,870,000. The purpose-built JLR retailers is described as an investment opportunity in a “dominant car...

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EASTERN WESTERN IN £50m AGENCY HIT STRATSTONE STOCKTON ON SALE FOR £6m ROADSIDE GARAGES RAISES £20k FOR CHARITY EUROPE CALLS FOR ‘URGENT ACTION’ ON EVs… … BUT GERMAN MINISTER HINTS AT AID...

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Marshall Motor Group has appointed two new group MDs who will divide the retailer’s brands between them, in a move believed to be similar to that of Pendragon with its Stratstone and Evans Halshaw...

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MARSHALL TO REPLICATE PENRAGON DIVISIONS? FCA DCA DEADLINE PUSHBACK INTO 2025 ‘LIKELY’ AUTO RETAILERS IN RICH LIST 2024 FIRST FISKER RETAILER OPENS IN NOTTINGHAM AUTO RETAIL LIVE BUSINESS BOOSTER...

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FCA: COMPANIES ‘ALMOST CERTAINLY’ GUILTY OF DCA FAILINGS STRATSTONE BYD BIRMINGHAM ‘PERFECT’ TRIUMPH ALEX CHESTERMAN TO SHARE £30m WINDFALL CATCH UP WITH AUTO RETAIL LIVE VOLVO EYES DTC IN...

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US dealer group Lithia has significantly upped its offer for Pendragon. Lithia, one of the three groups bidding for Pendragon, has increased its total offer to £397 million, up from the original...

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US group Lithia has agreed to buy Pendragon’s UK auto retail and leasing operations, including the Evans Halshaw and Stratstone divisions, for £280 million. Under the agreement, the Pendragon PLC...

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Stratsone Aston Martin on London’s Park Lane has been spray-painted by Just Stop Oil campaigners. They also blocked Park Lane near the Pendragon showroom and glued themselves to the road. The...

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  BREARLEY LOSES COURT CASE MERCEDES-BENZ RETAIL LOSES £20.8m; PSA RETAIL LOSES £9m EDDIE HAWTHORNE: ‘WHERE’S THE EV INFRASTRUCTURE?’ FUTURE OF RETAILING REPORT EXPLORES SEISMIC SHIFTS...

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James Brearley, Pendragon’s former Stratstone managing director and now Inchcape Retail CEO, is suing his former legal team Higgs and Sons. Brearley and three others are alleging professional...

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  BREARLEY TAKES LAWYERS TO COURT OVER JLR SITE ADVICE VERTU ‘RISKS INVESTOR BACKLASH’ COUNCIL BUYS PENDRAGON STRATSTONE PREMISES SYTNER TO TURN CINEMA INTO CARSHOP MORE THAN HALF BACK...

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Family-run retailer Sinclair has bought the Stratstone Jaguar Land Rover business in Swansea from troubled Pendragon. Pendragon, which has issued several profit warnings in the recent past and seen...

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Auto Retail Agenda believes that Rybrook is in talks with Stratstone to buy one of its JLR sites which will need new premises. Sources say the deal for the Stoke-on-Trent retailer has been in the...

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  FCA MOVED TO PROTECT LOW-INCOME BUYERS RYBROOK TO BUY STRATSTONE JLR RETAILER? £23 MILLION SCRAPPAGE SCHEME OPENS FOR LONDON LCVs LOOKERS `TOP EMPLOYER’ FOR THIRD YEAR RUNNING WORLD NEWS –...

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Pendragon has announced that its founder and CEO, Trevor Finn, is to retire from the company in the new year. In a statement to shareholders issued on Friday evening, the group said Finn had “agreed...

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Pendragon, the UK’s largest auto retail group, has announced an ambitious plan to grow its business by 40 sites over the next five years. The move comes on the back of half year profits well ahead of...

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The UK’s biggest auto retailer, Pendragon, issued a reassuring interim management statement covering the four months to the end of October. The company said it was confident that this...

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Shares in Pendragon jumped sharply after the company used its annual results announcement to confirm it had reached a refinancing settlement with its funders and avoided a December 2008 covenant test....

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