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If you would like to enter the awards go to our 'award categories and entry process' page.
(* audited by BDO)
Marketing should help you to build your brand as well as to find new customers and help you to grow sales in the short term.
Dealers entering this award category should provide an excellent, comprehensive, customer-focused digital experience for consumers who are searching online for their next car, whether new or used.
Entrants should have a customer-centric culture and take pride in strong satisfaction scores, but never allow complacency and react robustly to fix the situation whenever things go wrong.
Sponsor: LTK Consultants
Open to franchised workshops and independent repairers, entrants will have high performing teams of service reception, workshop control and technical staff who deliver great returns for the dealership.
This award acknowledges the power of multiple individuals working together towards an acknowledged goal in a new and/or used car or van sales department in the past 12 months.
We want to recognise dealerships that are deeply rooted in their communities, support local causes and organisations, and have a culture of giving something back.
Retailing second-hand cars demands a host of skills and processes, from stock acquisition and preparation to marketing and protecting profit margins. We seek entries from independents and car supermarkets that show strength in all these aspects.
Sponsor: Santander Consumer Finance
Pre-owned cars should not be the poor relations for the franchised dealership keen to win this award. Entrants should evidence strength in stock acquisition and preparation, marketing, sales and profits.
Selected by a combination of readers’ and judges’ votes.
Sponsor: Car Care Plan
Selected by a combination of readers’ and judges’ votes.
Selected by a combination of readers’ and judges’ votes.
Sponsor: Jewelultra
Outlets that have embraced electric vehicle sales should enter this category, demonstrating their success in developing a strong local market.
Sponsor: carwow
This category is open to single-site owner-operators and to best-performing dealerships within a larger group network, to reward strong performance across sales, marketing, aftersales and administration.
Entrants should demonstrate how they provide great value and best-in-class service.
Open to franchised and independent groups. Brand specialists or regional heroes apply here. Entrants should have strong sales and aftersales results, a culture of success and the financial results to show for it.
Sponsor: RAPID RTC
Open to franchised and independent groups. Entrants should have strong sales and aftersales results, a culture of success and the financial results to show for it.
Sponsor: heycar
Open to franchised and independent dealer groups, this award recognises high levels of best practice in used car sales group-wide. Stock management, marketing and financial performance are among the criteria to be examined.
This category invites entries about ideas and innovations, no matter how simple or complex, that have come from a dealer’s member of staff to make a work process simpler, save time or money, or solve a problem in some way.
Open to industry suppliers that are helping to change dealers’ fortunes. We expect to see innovation and measurable results, including examples of beneficial use by your customers.
Open to entries from industry suppliers making a significant difference to dealers’ fortunes.
Entries will be reviewed and voted upon by readers and the judging panel.
This award recognises vehicle manufacturers that are developing and delivering the best products and technology consumers could want, both now and in the near future.
Nominated and voted upon by the judging panel.
Open to the automotive businesses which develop their workforce for the future, whether recruiting new starter apprentices or encouraging existing employees onto apprenticeships for higher level qualifications.
The ultimate accolade for the best business performance and culture.
Selected by the judging panel.
Sponsor: Keyloop
The winner will be a dealer principal or general manager who has done incredible things with difficult brands or marketplaces by demonstrating excellent leadership skills, drive and innovative thinking that has helped the dealership achieve business objectives.
To recognise strong leadership, vision, visibility and accountability at the highest level.
Nominated and voted on by the judging panel.
We recognise someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the automotive industry during their career.
The recipient is chosen by AM’s editor, Tim Rose, and editor-in-chief Stephen Briers.
