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ICO fines RSA for data loss

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance plc (RSA) £150,000 following the loss of the personal information of nearly 60,000 customers. An ICO investigation looked […]

Volvo names first Drive Me family

Volvo Cars has named the Hain family, from Gothenburg in Sweden, as the first people chosen to take part in a real-life autonomous drive research programme. The family of four […]

Belron builds on service network

Belron Canada has acquired vehicle damage repair company Speedy Collision with a network of 24 franchise collision service centres located across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. The move comes soon after […]

Volvo sets new course dates

Volvo Cars UK has made a further date available for its product/technology update course, providing delegates with the latest information on Volvo’s range of cars. The next course will run […]

Sytner acquires CarShop

The Sytner Group has acquired the CarShop supermarket chain for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1999, CarShop is one of the UK’s largest independent dealers with sites in Cardiff, Doncaster, […]

Horizon moves to MGA

Horizon Insurance has changed its status to managing general agent and ceased writing new business. The Gibraltar-based insurance carrier, formerly known as Octagon, stopped renewing and accepting new motor policies […]

JLR achieves ‘best ever’

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has achieved its best ever full-year global sales in 2016, selling more than one car every minute with retails of 583,313 vehicles, up 20% on the […]

Apprentice plans for Alton Cars

Alton Cars Ltd is set to host an Apprentice Open Day event at its flagship Leeds site on Saturday 11 March 2017. The event, working in combination with AutoRaise, will […]

Belron searches for start-ups

Belron is looking for start-ups to join its acceleration programme. Drive, the 10-week global accelerator, which follows a pilot run in 2016, will continue to seek disruptive start-ups who can […]

M M Auto Services wins award

M M Auto Services, a Dingbro Ltd customer and member of the Servicesure Autocentre network, has won an award after selling a number of vehicles from their ‘virtual forecourt’ throughout […]

Volvo creates new shared mobility unit

Volvo Cars is to set up a new shared mobility business unit as part of a broad expansion of its car sharing and mobility services strategy. The new business unit […]

Honda reveals Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem

Honda has unveiled its Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem concept at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. The concept connects the power of artificial intelligence, robotics and big data to ‘transform the mobility […]