Simply 5 weeks left to enter 2025 AM Awards. Let’s have fun nice dealerships!
There’s simply over a month left for automotive and van sellers to enter the 2025 AM Awards for automotive retailers.
Getting into Automotive Administration’s AM Awards is a strategic alternative for UK automotive and van dealerships, vendor teams, producers’ nationwide gross sales corporations, and automotive retail suppliers to achieve recognition, improve model credibility, and interact with business leaders.
The AM Awards Dinner, on Could 1, 2025 in London, additionally opens invaluable networking channels, offering dealerships with entry to different high-performing business gamers, from suppliers to OEMs, and enhancing skilled visibility.
Successful and even being shortlisted in classes like Dealership of the 12 months, Neighborhood Hero or On-line Shopper Expertise presents 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 clients and expert staff who’re motivated to work for acknowledged leaders within the automotive discipline.
The Neighborhood Hero Award
We wish to recognise dealerships which are 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 enable you to to construct your model in addition to to seek out new clients and enable you to to develop gross sales within the brief time period. Open to sellers of vehicles or LCVs, whether or not unbiased or franchised, and automobile producers.
On-line Shopper Expertise of the 12 months – Franchised Supplier
Sellers coming into this award class ought to present an glorious, complete, customer-focused digital expertise for shoppers who are looking out on-line for his or her subsequent automotive, whether or not new or used.
On-line Shopper Expertise of the 12 months – Unbiased Supplier
Sellers who enter this award class ought to present a superb, complete, customer-focused digital expertise for shoppers who’re looking out on-line for his or her subsequent automotive, whether or not new or used.
Chief in Range and Inclusion
Bringing variety and inclusion collectively supplies a holistic alternative to recognise and honour the businesses which are taking care of their employees in the very best method 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 – Unbiased & Franchised
The workshop is a crucial supply of profitability and buyer contact. This award seeks to recognise an excellent, excellent service web site. Open to each unbiased and franchised workshops.
Finest in Buyer Service
Entrants ought to have a customer-centric tradition and take pleasure in sturdy satisfaction scores, however by no means enable complacency and react robustly to repair the state of affairs every time issues go improper. 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 function 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 display they go the additional mile to ship the very 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 just display how you’ve gotten gone the additional mile to help the usage of electrical automobiles. Entrants can have a passionate and educated workforce that advocates for EVs.
EV Efficiency of the 12 months
Retailers which are excessive performing in electrical automobile gross sales ought to enter this class, demonstrating their capacity to develop a robust native market. Open to franchised and unbiased automotive or LCV sellers.
The Sustainability Award
This class is searching for the most effective motor retailers and carmakers which might display strategic planning and sturdy 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 greatest performing dealerships inside a bigger group community – each single franchised and multi-franchised showrooms.
Unbiased 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 deal with 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 kind – to not say a vastly profitable and worthwhile enterprise.
Supplier Principal/Basic Supervisor of the 12 months
The winner will probably be a vendor principal or common supervisor who has executed unimaginable issues with troublesome manufacturers or marketplaces by demonstrating glorious management expertise, drive and modern considering that has helped the dealership obtain enterprise aims.
Supplier Group of the 12 months (as much as 10 websites)*
The motor retail business 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 issues 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 business suppliers that are serving to to vary sellers’ fortunes. We count on to see innovation and measurable outcomes, together with examples of useful use by your clients. Services or products should have been launched since January 2024.
Provider of the 12 months (provider class)
Open to submissions from business suppliers making a important distinction to sellers’ fortunes. Entries will probably be reviewed and voted upon by vendor readers and the judging panel.
