Dealership Network Update December 2024

As we come to the end of 2024, the usual slowdown has taken its toll. We’ve recorded 270 changes throughout December 2024, that’s still over 13 changes every business day though.

Breaking down December’s changes by vehicle type, gives us 178 for Cars, 19 for LCV’s, and 73 for Motorcycles.

Noting the changes is made easy by our Autosites system, you can toggle the pins for site type changes on and off very easily in the menu. In the graphic below, we’ve shown all changes for the month.

Next up, our infographic illustrates data changes by site type. There are numerous categories tracked within our system, here we’ve just shown a sample of the key ones.

The ‘type’ of change category pulls together all of the updates within the different types of site. For this month, the bulk has been made up of new appointments, terminated franchised agreements and acquisitions.

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Dealership Network Analysis November 2024

In our November 2024 update, we’ve recorded a ‘not too shabby’ 438 changes within the UK dealership networks. That equates to over 20 changes each business day.

We rank and file these updates across all vehicle catagories. For November, we have Car at 309, LCV at 37, HGV at 9 and Motorcycle at 65.

Our map tells you all you need to know about, where in the UK Novembers changes occurred.

With the data by Site Type, we can show how our 420 changes were apportioned amongs the different type of site. This month, aftersales were on par with dealerships.

Changes in Data by Type of Change breaks down the different categories we track (sample is shown below in the graphic).

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Dealership Network Analysis October 2024

Octobers figures amount to a total of 298 changes throughout the franchised dealer networks. Our tracking has reported over 12 changes every business day.

We cover all types of vehicle in our analysis. For October we’ve broken the changes down by Car (197, LCV (33), HGV (11) and Motorcycle (57).

In the graphic above, we given some context by highlighting where Octobers movements occured by location.

We also track the changes by site type. Out of the 298 changes for October, dealership changes outweigh the other categories with aftersales coming in second.

Breaking the categories down by the type of change, gives us insight into the reason for change. We track many categories, those illustrated above are a sample.

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Dealership Network Analysis September 2024

September 2024 has brought us a noteworthy total of 351 changes, from within the UK Franchised dealer networks. Averaging that out, this equates to approximately 16 changes occurring every business day throughout the month.

Not wishing to limit our abilities by restricting dealership data to numbers only, we’ve shown precisely where these franchised garage changes occurred geographically within the UK:

Our monthly graphic, demonstrates how the changes were represented by dealership (sales and service) types, aftersales sites, used car sites and others.

Franchises appointed, franchises relinquished, site relocations, and sites that have been acquired by other dealer groups are just some of the categories we use. Changes in franchise types are shown specifically for September in the analysis by franchise category data.

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Dealership Network Analysis August 2024

This months network analysis shows a little slower progress from the previous month, with dealership changes slowing overall from 647 to 492 overall. However, we’ve still managed to rack up 23 changes per day for Car, LCV, HGV and Motorcycle and ATV.

Analysing the dealership data from August displayed on a geographical map, we can easily identify and observe exactly where significant changes have occurred by region. This visual representation allows for a clearer understanding of trends and patterns across different areas.

Looking at the pie chart for this month, we can see how the data was spread across the different site types. We have analyised dealerships, aftersales sites, used car sites and more.

The months analysis of what’s changed could be shown in over 20 categories. For the purpose of simplicity, we’ve sampled: Franchised Appointed, Franchise Relinquished, Site Relocation and sites that have been taken over by way of a group acquistion.

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Dealership Network Update July 2024

July 2024 turned out to be a busy month for movements within the UK franchised dealer networks. For vehicle types we’ve recorded over 29 changes per business day across Car, LCV, HGV, and Motorcycle/ATV.

Let’s say that we want to clearly present July’s change in franchises, along with various site types, on a detailed map of the UK. This visual representation helps in understanding how franchises and site type movements are distributed across different regions.

This month’s pie chart illustrates the various site types that are included in the data set. It effectively gives an idea of the different categories of site and their respective proportions within the overall picture.

Our comprehensive tracking system covers a wide variety of site types, which includes not only the various kinds of locations but also aspects such as acquisition, site relocation, and changes in site names.

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Dealership Network Update June 2024

June 2024’s update totals 193 changes across the UK Vehicle dealership networks. We’ve broken the movements down by vehicle type in the graphic below:

The geographical changes by location for June 2024 are illustrated in the map view:

The pie chart demonstrates how the changes occurred across the different site types for the month:

We track changes over multiple categories, we’ve included a few to demonstrate how these can be broken down:

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DEALERSHIP TREND REPORT MAY 2024

Let’s face it, a Dealership trend report is a useful ally if you are involved in network planning activities. Spotting opportunities without the right data can, however lead to lost opportunities and inefficiencies. Enter our Dealership report for May 2024. Used with previous months data, it can help spot trends and give insight that others may have missed. This month for example, we’ve racked up 273 changes (vs 394 in April). Have we been lazy? No. It’s just been a little quieter than previously.

The updates to Dealership by type of vehicle have declined over the past month. April’s figures are shown in brackets: Car 128 (198), HGV 2, (10), LCV 62 (94) and Motorcycle/ATV 81 (93).

The map shows the geographical changes by location.

Our report on data updates by site type shows Dealerships making up most of the changes for this month at 58%, a miniscule decrease from the previous month (57%). Aftersales is represented at 26% (vs 23%), used at 7% (9%) and the ‘other’ category down at 6% (10%).

Never suffering from a lack of categories in our dataset, we monitor and report on a multitude. For May 2024, we’ve recorded the following: 105 franchises appointed (vs April at 91), 80 franchises relinquished (vs April at 96), 3 dealership relocations (vs 17 in April) and 9 name changes (vs 42 in April).

DEALERSHIP TREND LOCATION REPORT APRIL 2024

In April’s Dealership location report, we’ve reported slightly less overall than the previous month. But that’s not to say we haven’t been busy! Totalling 395 location changes, (19 changes every business day) there is certainly plenty of change happening in the UK networks. As ever, if you want to use the data as a trend tracker, simply check out our previous updates and use the numbers as necessary.

Our report for April’s Dealership by type of vehicle gives us the following snapshot: Car 198 (201), LCV 94 (49), HGV 10, (5) and Motorcycle/ATV 93 (168). LCV and Motorcycle ATV clearly leading the pack over the previous month.

Our Dealership location changes graphic, clearly illustrates where the changes took place throughout April.

April’s report by site type is unrelentingly weighted by Dealerships, 57% in fact. This is lightly down from from the March figure of 64%. This month aftersales sites is identical to the previous month, at 23%. The used car figure of 9% has increased on previous one at 6%. Our ‘others’ category is up too at 10% from just 5% last month.

There’s certainly no shortage of categories in our dataset. For instance break our dealership update report data down by multiple categories. As a sample of some of the categories tracked, for April 2024, we’re reporting : 91 franchises appointed (vs March at 96), 96 franchises relinquished (vs March at 138), 17 dealership relocations (vs 25 in March).

Dealership Trend Report (Locations) March 2024

JS Management makes it easy to track Dealership locations with our data. Here we’re reporting movements UK wide, across many different categories and vehicle types. If you have the time, you can easily compile Dealership trend reports by looking at our previous updates. In this post we are representing changes through March 2024.

Dealership changes by type of vehicle have increased overall from 388 to 423 since February (breakdown figures are shown in brackets). Car 201 (262), HGV 5, (16), LCV 49 (41) and Motorcycle/ATV 168 (69).

The UK map clearly reports where the changes have occured through March 2024

This months changes in data by site type report Dealerships taking up a fair chunk of the movements for the month at 64%, an increase from the previous month (52%). Aftersales is represented at 23% (vs 29%), used at 6% (5%) and the ‘other’ category down to 5% vs 10% in February.

As we wind down our report for March, we’ll end with changes by franchise category. There are 96 changes by franchise appointed (vs 81 in December), 138 franchises relinquished (vs 85) and 25 site relocations (vs 16) in the previous month). Group Acquisitions, have reduced somewhat this monh, totalling 10 (vs 54 previously).

DEALERSHIP NETWORK UPDATE FEBRUARY 2024

Our update for February 2024 gives an insight into the increases across the network since January. This month we have seen an increase of 81 in total. This represents 18 changes per business day.

Dealerships by type of vehicle have increased since January (figures are shown in brackets). Car 262 (186), HGV 16, (11), LCV 41 (34) and Motorcycle/ATV 69 (76).

February’s account of where the movements occured physically is shown in the map image.

Changes by site type shows Dealerships taking up the majority of the movements for this month at 52%, a slight decrease from the previous month (49%). Aftersales is represented at 29% (vs 34%), used at 5% (8%) and the ‘other’ category 10% vs 7% in January.

Finalising Februay’s figures we’re showing changes by franchise category. We’ve totalled 81 changes by franchise appointed (vs 49 in December), 85 franchises relinquished (vs 102) and 16 site relocations (vs 20) in the previous month). Significantly up though are Group Acquisitions, coming in at 54 (vs 12 previously).

Dealership Network Update January 2024

January 2024’s numbers are steadily rising over the previous month. Across the dealership networks, we’ve recorded 307 changes (vs 227 previously) for this month alone. This represents 13 changes per business day.

Changes to Dealership by type of vehicle has increased since December, with the exception of the LCV category, which has shown a decrease of 23 changes. Decembers figures are shown in brackets: Car 186 (139), HGV 11, (3) and Motorcycle/ATV 76 (28).

We’ve mapped out the Dealership changes for January on the UK map graphic above.

The data update by site type shows Dealerships taking up the bulk of the changes for this month at 49%, a slight decrease from the previous month (52%). Aftersales is represented at 34% (vs 30%), used at 8% (9%) and the ‘other’ category the same at 7%.

We conclude Januarys figures with an update to the changes by franchise category. We’ve totalled 49 changes by franchise appointed (vs 69 in December), 102 franchises relinquished (vs 52) and 20 site relocations (vs 7 in the previous month).