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If you would like to enter the awards go to our 'award categories and entry process' page.
(* audited category)
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.
Dealers which enter this new 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.
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. Open to dealers of cars or LCVs, whether independent or franchised, and vehicle manufacturers.
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.
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.
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.
Selected by a combination of readers’ and judges’ votes.
Selected by a combination of readers’ and judges’ votes.
Selected by a combination of readers’ and judges’ votes.
Outlets that have embraced electric vehicle sales should enter this category, demonstrating their success in developing a strong local market.
This award is open to any company or group that sells used cars and is intended to recognise those who have turned the practice into an art form – not to say a hugely successful and profitable business.
Growth in business and personal contract hire means that a swathe of motor retailers are now meeting their customers’ needs outside the traditional confines of a branded showroom. Able to source new cars from a broad range of brands, and promoting simple rental payment structures, they soon appeal to busy families and previous company car drivers who’re happy to transact at a distance
This category is open to single-site owner operators and to best performing dealerships within a larger group network – both single franchised and multi-franchised showrooms.
This award is open to any independent group that sells used cars and is intended to recognise the broad success across the group from its focus on used cars.
The motor retail industry is made up primarily of smaller, regional groups. This award category is designed to recognise and honour those companies. Entrants will be able to show how they meet the AM Awards’ original criteria of quality, innovation and service and how they have tracked their performance improvement over the past five years.
This award recognises the unique complications and complexities that come from co-ordinating a large retail group, one with more than 10 dealerships. Entrants will be able to show how they meet the AM Awards’ original criteria of quality, innovation and service, and how they have tracked their performance improvement over the past five years.
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.
The winners from the two Best Dealer Group categories, plus Best Used Car Dealer Group (franchised or independent), come under the scrutiny of our judging panel once more to decide who is the deserving winner of our ultimate business award.
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.
