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).