Entries wished for the 2025 AM Awards
The 2025 AM Awards at the moment are open for entries from automotive and van dealerships, vendor teams, producers’ nationwide gross sales corporations, and automotive retail suppliers.
Coming into Automotive Administration’s AM Awards is a strategic alternative for UK automotive dealerships to achieve recognition, improve model credibility, and interact with trade leaders.
Successful and even being shortlisted in classes like Dealership of the 12 months, Neighborhood Hero or On-line Client Expertise gives dealerships a novel promotional enhance, serving to them stand out in a aggressive market.
Previous winners report that the award showcases their dedication to excellence in customer support, digital innovation, and crew achievements, drawing each prospects and expert workers who’re motivated to work for acknowledged leaders within the automotive subject.
The AM Awards Dinner, on Could 1, 2025 in London, additionally opens useful networking channels, offering dealerships with entry to different high-performing trade gamers, from suppliers to OEMs, and enhancing skilled visibility.
Taking part within the AM Awards helps steady enchancment, as getting ready entries encourages dealerships to guage their practices and refine methods, significantly in rising areas like electrical car gross sales and sustainability initiatives. For dealerships aiming to place themselves as market leaders, getting into the AM Awards is greater than a celebration; it’s a mark of belief that may appeal to prospects, retain expertise, and construct long-term trade relationships
Along with boosting recognition and credibility, getting into the AM Awards allows dealerships to benchmark their efficiency towards a number of the finest within the trade. The businesses that make it by way of the judging to the shortlist of finalists showcase their dedication to high quality, innovation, and buyer satisfaction, which appeals to a shopper base that values trusted, respected service suppliers within the automotive house.
A important benefit of the AM Awards lies in its position in expertise attraction and retention. Dealerships that obtain an award or shortlist standing are extra interesting to potential workers, as the popularity serves as a testomony to the group’s dedication to excellence {and professional} progress. Supplier teams like Marshall, TrustFord and Waylands have leveraged their previous AM Award wins to draw top-tier expertise, boosting crew morale and making certain motivated employees serve their prospects to their finest skills.
The Neighborhood Hero Award
We wish to recognise dealerships which can be deeply rooted of their communities, help native causes and organisations, and have a tradition of giving one thing again. Open to automotive and LCV sellers, together with franchised and unbiased.
Advertising Technique of the 12 months
Advertising ought to assist you to construct your model in addition to to seek out new prospects and assist you to develop gross sales within the brief time period. Open to sellers of vehicles or LCVs, whether or not unbiased or franchised, and car producers.
On-line Client Expertise of the 12 months – Franchised Supplier
Sellers getting into this award class ought to present an glorious, complete, customer-focused digital expertise for customers who are looking on-line for his or her subsequent automotive, whether or not new or used.
On-line Client Expertise of the 12 months – Impartial Supplier
Sellers who enter this award class ought to present a superb, complete, customer-focused digital expertise for customers who’re looking on-line for his or her subsequent automotive, whether or not new or used.
Chief in Variety and Inclusion
Bringing variety and inclusion collectively supplies a holistic alternative to recognise and honour the businesses which can be taking care of their employees in the very best approach by being an inclusive employer that priorities the psychological well being and wellbeing of their employees. Open to franchised and unbiased automotive and van retailers
Workshop of the 12 months – Impartial & Franchised
The workshop is a important supply of profitability and buyer contact. This award seeks to recognise an excellent, excellent service website. Open to each unbiased and franchised workshops.
Finest in Buyer Service
Entrants ought to have a customer-centric tradition and take satisfaction in sturdy satisfaction scores, however by no means permit complacency and react robustly to repair the state of affairs at any time when issues go fallacious. Entries accepted from franchised and unbiased automotive and LCV sellers.
Buyer Service Champion
This award is for a person who works inside a franchised or unbiased automotive or LCV retailer, in any customer-facing position or division. Entrants might self-nominate or could also be put ahead by colleagues or managers. The judges count on to see people who clearly and persistently show they go the additional mile to ship the best stage of customer support and who stand out for his or her capacity to pay attention, empathise and adapt.
EV Advocate of the 12 months
Open to each sellers and OEMs, this award requires that you simply show how you’ve got gone the additional mile to help the usage of electrical autos. Entrants may have a passionate and educated workforce that advocates for EVs.
EV Efficiency of the 12 months
Shops which can be excessive performing in electrical car gross sales ought to enter this class, demonstrating their capacity to develop a powerful native market. Open to franchised and unbiased automotive or LCV sellers.
The Sustainability Award
This class is in search of the most effective motor retailers and carmakers which may show strategic planning and strong steps being taken to assist construct a extra sustainable and higher future.
Franchised Dealership of the 12 months
This class is open to single-site proprietor operators and to finest performing dealerships inside a bigger group community – each single franchised and multi-franchised showrooms.
Impartial Supplier of the 12 months
This award is open to any unbiased (non-franchised) vendor that sells used vehicles and is meant to recognise the broad success throughout the group from its give attention to used vehicles.
Used Automotive Efficiency of the 12 months
This award is open to any firm or group that sells used vehicles and is meant to recognise those that have turned the apply into an artwork type – to not say a vastly profitable and worthwhile enterprise.
Supplier Principal/Basic Supervisor of the 12 months
The winner can be a vendor principal or basic supervisor who has accomplished unbelievable issues with troublesome manufacturers or marketplaces by demonstrating glorious management abilities, drive and modern pondering that has helped the dealership obtain enterprise aims.
Supplier Group of the 12 months (as much as 10 websites)*
The motor retail trade is made up primarily of smaller, regional teams. This award class is designed to recognise and honour these corporations. Entrants will be capable to present how they meet the AM Awards’ authentic standards of high quality, innovation and repair and the way they’ve tracked their efficiency enchancment over the previous 5 years.
Supplier Group of the 12 months (greater than 10 websites)*
This award recognises the distinctive problems and complexities that come from co-ordinating a big retail group, one with greater than 10 dealerships. Entrants will be capable to present how they meet the AM Awards’ authentic standards of high quality, innovation and repair, and the way they’ve tracked their efficiency enchancment over the previous 5 years.
Finest New Product or Service (provider class)
Open to trade suppliers that are serving to to alter sellers’ fortunes. We count on to see innovation and measurable outcomes, together with examples of useful use by your prospects. Services or products will need to have been launched since January 2024.
Provider of the 12 months (provider class)
Open to submissions from trade suppliers making a important distinction to sellers’ fortunes. Entries can be reviewed and voted upon by vendor readers and the judging panel.
AM Awards Auditors: Cooper Parry
Persevering with of their position as AM Awards auditors would be the specialist automotive crew at Cooper Parry (previously UHY Hacker Younger Manchester) led by David Kendrick, Ian McMahon and Paul Daly. Automotive Administration is delighted to have interaction such experience, which is significant in verifying entries and serving to the judging panel to resolve the strongest contenders in our headline vendor group classes.
