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Rainworth Motor Group doubled its franchised car retail footprint with a Hyundai and Isuzu dealership acquisition after its directors went from the AM cover to expansion talks in the space of three days.
The dealer profile in December’s edition of AM magazine revealed that Rainworth directors Jon Atherton and Simon Beckett were “hopeful of adding to their all-Škoda portfolio” and served as an introduction for Matt Golden, the managing director of Huddersfield Hyundai and Isuzu franchisee R N Golden.
Three days later, the three men found themselves discussing an acquisition of the business and May 1 saw the official handover of keys at the dual brand dealership site on Wakefield Rd, Lepton.
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Car retail bosses have voiced concern that a failure to re-open car showrooms in-time for the March number plate change will impact jobs and the economy, claiming politicians have no understanding of business”.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) have both now called on Government to allow businesses to reopen their doors to car buyers “as soon as it is safe to do so”.
But retailers told AM that MPs have to show a better understanding of the impact of continued closures in March and allow the re-opening of their spacious, socially-distanced retail environments.
Click the thumbs up >Dealers shared fears that the ‘Lockdown 2’ closure of car showrooms in England would deliver a second crushing blow to UK car sales when they gave responses
to an AM survey aiming to gauge the sector’s mood.
While some sector analysts suggested retailers were “bullish” about their prospects of maintaining business levels under the more stringent measures, almost
half (49.6%) told us that they expected to deliver no more than 25% of their usual sales volumes in the period which ended on December 2.
Almost a third (32.3%) suggested they might be able to sell 26% to 50% of their usual new and used car volume, meanwhile, as just 13.4% said sales would be