AM Awards: a night for industry stars
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Click the thumbs up >The industry s top achievers were recognised last night in Birmingham at the annual AM Awards night.
This year s event was the biggest yet.
Welcoming the guests to the ICC in Birmingham, AM editor Stephen Briers acknowledged the quality of the entries submitted.
He said: The standard of entries was extremely high and resulted in many hours of deliberation for judges.
Briers also thanked Carter & Carter which conducted interviews and assessments of each of the awards entries.
The awards were presented by TV presenter Penny Smith. Big Impressionist Alistair Macgowan provided the comedy before the casino opened.
Click the thumbs up >Motorline was named as Hyundai Motor UKâs retail group of the year as its dealerships claimed dealer of the year and aftersales dealer of the year awards to mark a memorable hat-trick at the Korean car franchiseâs annual awards.
The Canterbury-based AM100 group claimed Dealer of the Year 2020 with its Hyundai Worcester business and Aftersales Dealer of the Year 2020 with Hyundai Maidstone at the brandâs virtual awards event.
It claimed wins in three of Hyundaiâs seven awards categories as Holdcdroft Motor Group, Read Motor Group, Richmond Motor Group and Smith Motor Group were also rewarded for top performances in a COVID-impacted trading period.
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Close Motor Company has replaced its Mitsubishi Motors in the UK dealership in Corby with a new Suzuki franchise.
The family-run group has operated the Mitsubishi franchise in the Northamptonshire town for 20 years and opened a second Mitsubishi sales point, in Peterborough, back in 2016.
But Mitsubishiâs 2020 announcement to its franchisees that it was set to withdraw from the UK â as exclusively reported by AM at the time â has prompted a re-think of its relationship with the brand.
Closeâs Group operations manager, Gareth Hill, took to LinkedIn to announce the move to introduce Suzuki to its site on High Street, Old Corby.
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