Michelin buys Blackcircles.com for £50m
Mike Welch, chief executive of Blackcircles.com, has sold the online tyre-fitting company to the Michelin Group. The £50m deal sees Welch remain at the head of the Peebles-based firm he set up age...
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UK car market enjoys strongest April since 2005
Britain’s new car market enjoyed its best April since 2005, with sales up by 5.1% compared to the same month last year. A total of 185,778 new cars were registered in the UK throughout April, plac...
EV evaluation - Kia Soul EV vs Nissan Leaf
It’s a brave man (or woman) who tries to argue that the Tesla Model S isn’t the best electric car about, but the sad truth is that only a lucky few can afford one. That being so, we’ve lined up a c...
Suzi Cooper to lead Alphabet’s SME broker channel
Business mobility provider Alphabet has strengthened its recently formed broker channel team by bringing in Suzi Cooper as Regional Development Manager – North. Cooper will be responsible for manag...
‘Healthy returns’ for Fleet Hire with 60% profit growth
Contract hire and vehicle management provider Fleet Hire saw profits grow 60% in the 2014/15 trading year. The company, headquartered in Solihull and Milton Keynes, manages a fleet of around 7,000 ...
Hyundai gets new CEO for European division
Hyundai Europe’s CEO, Byung Kwon Rhim, has been replaced at the top of the Korean company’s EU branch by Hyung Cheong Kim. The move comes after Rhim returned to the Hyundai headquarters in Seoul t...
Election 2015: which party will keep motorists happy at the wheel?
There are less than 24 hours until the polling stations open for what has become generally accepted as the most unpredictable British General Election in decades. If like a significant portion of t...
Hyundai announces £53k price tag for hydrogen-powered ix35
Hyundai has revealed that the hydrogen-fuelled version of the ix35 crossover, which is available to order from today, will be priced at £53,105. That starting price – which makes the world’s first...
Rehumanising the car would spell huge benefit for UK driving standards
Treat others as you would like them to treat you and you’ll be amazed at the improvement in driving standards.
True fleet sales up 15% for Hyundai in Q1 2015
Hyundai’s true fleet sales grew by 15% in the first quarter of 2015. Compared to the first three months of 2014, the South Korean car maker registered 800 units to company fleets, a figure which o...
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