{"id":1511,"date":"2015-02-06T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:45:51","slug":"franchised-dealer-site-numbers-grew-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/franchised-dealer-site-numbers-grew-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Franchised dealer site numbers grew in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of franchised dealer sites in the UK increased last year to their highest level since 2011, according to new data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icdp.net\/our-services\/publications\/publication.aspx?pub=17791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"broken_link\">International Car Distribution Programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Research for the ICDP\u2019s European Car Distribution Handbook shows how main dealer sales outlets grew 1% year-on-year from 4,487 to 4,532 sites. However, the UK experience contrasted to a 2.5% fall in outlets across Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>As the UK sector consolidates the number of outlets has decreased every year since 2007, except for a 0.7% increase in 2011. The number of dealer sites in 2007 was 4,881.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year average sales per site increased 10% in 2014 from 469 to 516 units.<\/p>\n<p>The ICDP report shows how the number of dealer outlets across Western Europe fell by 2.5% in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetwork performance in terms of new car sales per dealer is still being driven to a greater extent by the fortunes of the brand and the general market trends.\u00a0 However, it should be remembered that a 5% reduction in sales points each year from the data in this report, would result in a 30% reduction by January 2020, equivalent to over 13,400 fewer main dealers in that period,\u201d said the ICDP reprt.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest UK car franchises in 2014 by network size were Vauxhall with 349 outlets (2013: 354), followed by Ford with 319 (2013: 334) and Peugeot with 238 (2013: 245).<\/p>\n<p>The research also shows how representation since 2004 amongst Asian volume brands, primarily Hyundai and Kia, has grown, while both premium and volume European outlet numbers have declined.<\/p>\n<p>However, sales achieved by premium outlets increased by 37% with fewer sites selling higher volumes. Sales amongst the Asian brands have grown 16% per outlet, outpacing the growth of their networks. However sales from the volume European brands fell 14%, faster than the decline in their networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of franchised dealer sites in the UK increased <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/franchised-dealer-site-numbers-grew-2014\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[173,174,155],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-ford","tag-peugeot","tag-vauxhall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}