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Motor industry business failures fall
Motor industry business failures fall Business failure among motor traders posted a 22.3 per cent decline in 2007 but the trend may be reaching a point of inflection, according to the latest insolvency figures from Experian, an information services company
Sticks and carrots
One of the best examples of the latter is the tax changes introduced by the government to reduce CO2 emissions across company fleets.
Carrots and sticks steer consumers toward greener cars
A new survey of car buying habits by Motorpoint has found that two thirds of UK motorists would now buy a car with better green credentials to avoid paying higher road tax
Relatively easy to find a new product niche?
Peter Cooke argues that it is time that lenders devised a credit arrangement for all the family
Federation achieves record profit of £26m
Federation achieves record profit of £26m The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF) has gone from a loss in 2006 to a profit in 2007, thanks to the sale of its ReMIT training business in May 2006.
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Janet Wilson, managing director, Close Motor Finance Ltd
Janet Wilson, managing director, Close Motor Finance Ltd What was your first ever job I had the job of making butter rounds and pressing them with a clover leaf pattern
Lessons from the US
Lessons from the US The recent Auto Finance Summit in Las Vegas offered useful insights into the thinking of the US motor finance industry, and showed their preoccupations to be broadly similar to those of their UK counterparts
ING Car Lease: Forestry Commission fleet deal
ING Car Lease: Forestry Commission fleet deal ING Car Lease has won a deal to provide the Forestry Commission with car leasing services, to a maximum value of £293,000 per year.
Risk-based pricing at the PoS
Risk-based pricing at the PoS On November 1 Black Horse Motor Finance launched a pilot scheme to test AutoRate Plus, its new point-of-sale (PoS) tool.