Hippo Motor Group takes over former Large Motoring World web site

Hippo Motor Group has expanded its UK footprint by opening a brand new dealership in Peterborough, taking up the previous Large Motoring World location in Werrington.

Now buying and selling beneath a tender launch forward of a full opening in mid-June, the positioning is a part of Hippo’s technique to develop its nationwide retail presence.

The Blackburn-based group at the moment retails over 10,000 automobiles a yr and generates £180 million in annual turnover.

Tom Preston. Hippo chief government, stated: “We’re constructing for the long run. 

“Peterborough offers us the area, the situation, and the chance to develop – not simply in gross sales, however in how we help our prospects and our individuals.

“We’ve bought a robust workforce, a transparent imaginative and prescient, and the ambition to do issues higher.

“We’re excited to be up and working and able to welcome the local people.”

Tom Stanton has been appointed basic supervisor of the positioning, which is backed by Hippo’s £3 million prep centre in Blackburn.

Greater than 30 new roles are being recruited throughout gross sales, service and aftersales because the enterprise seems to be to construct a robust native workforce and ship constant, high-quality requirements.

Large Motoring World determined to consolidate its two dealerships in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, into one web site to achieve efficiencies final yr.

It concentrated its operations within the metropolis to its Fengate location, with the Werrington employees retained and relocating to its sole Peterborough web site.