The Group completed the acquisition of the Newcastle, Sunderland and Durham Springfield Honda business. This places the Group as the largest Honda dealer in the UK.

The Group announced the acquisition of the trade and assets of three motor retail locations from Co-op Motors. The acquired sites added a further six franchised sales outlets to the Group's portfolio, with Nissan and Fiat in Derby, Nissan and Peugeot in Ilkeston and Nissan and Renault in Bradford.

The Group expanded the Honda Division with the acquisition of the Doncaster Honda franchise contract from Pendragon. This represented the Group's seventh Honda dealership (including Honda Bikes).

The Group acquired the trade and assets of a Suzuki dealership in Mansfield from Co-op Group Motors Limited and is the first Suzuki dealership in the Group's portfolio.

The Group acquired the trade and assets of two Ford dealerships in Durham and Hartlepool from Holiways Limited.

The Group acquired the trade and certain assets of a Vauxhall dealership in Northampton from W Grose Northampton Limited. This acquisition brings the number of Vauxhall dealerships operated by the Group to 11.

The Group acquired the share capital of Widnes Car Centre (1994) Limited, which comprised of a Nissan dealership in Widnes, Cheshire, and a wheelchair accessible vehicle business based in Batley, West Yorkshire (rebranded Bristol Street Versa).

The Bristol Mazda dealership expanded and welcomed Chrysler Jeep to the Group.

The Group opened a new Nissan dealership in Glasgow. This operation, situated adjacent to the Group's Glasgow Ford and Mazda operations, encompassed sales of electric vehicles, passenger and commercial vehicles in addition to a Nissan Sports Performance Centre selling the GTR and 370Z models. This was the Group's third Nissan dealership.

The Group opened a Hyundai dealership in Peterlee. This represented the Group's fourth Hyundai dealership.

Mazda Bristol was added to the growing portfolio.

The acquisition of SEAT Barnsley brought the total number of SEAT dealerships to three.

The Group acquired the entire share capital of Patrick (Holdings) Limited. This company traded as Patricks of Durham, operating the Vauxhall franchise in Durham, Co Durham.

The Group franchised its non-franchised Motor Nation used car operation at Darlington with the Nissan franchise.

The Group strengthened regional concentration in the North West with the acquisition of two franchised dealerships: Altrincham Nissan and Macclesfield Ford from Lookers plc.

The Group purchased a Peugeot dealership in Dunfermline.

A second SEAT dealership is added to the Bristol Street Motors portfolio with a dealership in Derby.

The Group acquired Vauxhall dealerships in Crewe and Macclesfield.

Further Macklin Motor dealerships added to the Group, with the acquisition of Ford and Mazda dealerships in Glasgow and Hamilton.

The acquisition of a second Scottish dealership, Paisley Peugeot, saw the Scottish dealerships re-branded as Macklin Motors;the Group's brand for future dealership acquisitions in Scotland. This month also saw the relocation of Gloucester Renault from a dual franchise to a freehold property, to allow for growth in scale.

A huge step for the Group as the first Scottish location opened with the acquisition of the Dunfermline Autocentre Ford car dealership.