Given the wholly unprecedented context of 2020, a profitable September is more important than ever to all our retailer and manufacturer partners.

Read our vision and initial test plans for an exciting new product coming to market to help our retail partners extend their geographical sales reach and adapt to emerging eCommerce trends in automotive.

Our position in the market gives us a unique view of consumer behaviour and marketplace trends, and we’re committed to making that insight readily available to you to help you make the most informed decisions. Here’s my three biggest takeaways for your business from this weeks’ webinar.

In this week’s weekly blog, Dealer Auction’s CEO, Le Etta Pearce, looks at how digitisation of the car buying journey has accelerated along with how retailers can use a suite of digital tools to bring greater efficiency and source the best possible stock at the best possible price.

In this week’s webinar our Sales Director, Rebecca Clark spoke with John O’Hanlon, CEO, Waylands about his experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and what his views are on the future for his business and indeed the automotive industry.

As part of our continued commitment to support the industry during these challenging times, we’re delighted to announce that we’ll be sponsoring ‘Weekends on Dave’, a premium spot on one of the UK’s most popular digital TV channels.

July saw the largest monthly increase in used cars prices since August 2018. The average sticker price of a used car last month was £13,888, which marks a 4.6% year-on-year increase on a like-for-like basis, and the fourth consecutive month of price growth.

I’m sure you didn’t expect another message from me quite so soon, however this week we have acquired AutoConvert, a leading finance, insurance and compliance software platform.

I wanted to let you know directly and to explain why I believe it’s more important than ever that we progress with our plans to support retailers to save time and money in their businesses, and to do this in areas beyond advertising.

The free double stock offer ended on Friday (17th July). It was introduced back in March as one of the first measures we offered to support retailers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Many retailers utilised the offer and have benefited since showrooms were eventually allowed to reopen. So it’s great news, that we have introduced another great offer with 75% off extra stock as we continue to emerge, allowing you to capitalise now demand is high and used car prices are rising.

We invited Darren Garland, Director of C&W Commercials Ltd to talk to us about how their business has operated over the past few months, as well as trends he has observed in the current market.

With social distancing set to be in place for the foreseeable future, a new trend is emerging amongst British workers in need of ways to manage remote working and travel for work, according to new research.

Moving vehicles has proven to be a big challenge for retailers and fleet businesses since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. But with demand for vehicle movements accelerating quickly, we’ve got easy and effective solutions to help you.

We are all hoping that the worst of the health crisis is behind us, and we can focus our efforts on selling vehicles. We believe there are a number of reasons to feel positive about the current trading environment and there are encouraging signs that this will continue in the coming months.

Used car prices increased by 4.7% year-on-year for w/c 13 July amid strong audience growth and purchase intent from buyers with leads to retailers up over 60% year-on-year. Read the latest market update from Rich Walker, Auto Trader’s Data & Insight Director.

Based on weekly pricing observations CVs in the market, it’s evident the increase in demand has influenced average prices.

Weekly Blog: Our Head of People and Culture, Christos Tsaprounis FCIPD, reveals our diversity and inclusion strategy through lockdown and beyond - discussing how we empower our people to engage with diversity & inclusion issues through a network of inclusive groups.

Chris Booth, Managing Director of DMC Group shared his experiences of recent months with us in this Q&A, and their positive transformation post-lockdown.