Richard Gordon, formerly commercial director at LEVC (London EV Company), has joined Ennis & Co, as an associate. Richard brings an exceptional breadth of knowledge of the automotive retail and manufacturer sectors, having also worked for Jardine Motors Group, Bentley Motors, Ferrari and Toyota, in senior automotive sales and marketing roles. Richard’s industry network, built...Read More

The Automotive industry needs to ‘wake up’ to diversity or face dramatic skills shortage: this was the message following the diversity and inclusion event earlier this week. Read more in the full Auto Trader press release, below: This week, over fifty HR directors, MDs and CEOs from many of the leading automotive retail and manufacturing...Read More

Take a moment to look up at the sky. Is it still there? Whatever your views on Brexit – and it will remain a vexed and divisive subject for a long time to come – the heavens did not fall in after the momentous vote by Britons to leave the European Union. The world did...Read More

So after a period of unprecedented turmoil the new boss arrives in a blaze of glory to restore order. But with that comes the almost inevitable shake-out of the upper echelons of the old management as a shiny new team is formed. High flying careers that looked set to shoot to the stars are suddenly...Read More

Full speed ahead or a car crash? The post-Brexit future of the UK in Europe The seismic implications of the UK’s cliff-hanger referendum vote to leave the European Union – triggering the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and bitter party leadership battles – are still working their way through. And will do so for...Read More

Two years ago Ennis & Co organised a ‘Women in Automotive’ conference in London which set the tone for a diversity debate which continues with vigour today. Supported by Aston Martin, around 90 senior female executives from the industry shared ideas about how to attract more women at all levels into the automotive sector. That...Read More

Investment banker JP Morgan Chase has told its employees that they no longer have to wear a formal business suit and tie. It has sent a memo to staff urging them to stay in step with the more relaxed sartorial tastes of their contemporary wealthy clients and technology entrepreneurs. Breaking with decades of tradition, they...Read More

British motor industry parts suppliers are planning £225million of new investment over the next three years in next three years – averaging £674,000 per firm, says a poll of more than 100 firms by SMMT. It will boost the domestic content of vehicles built in the UK and create many more thousands of new jobs,...Read More

If a company has invested years nurturing and grooming talent within its own ranks, why waste it? More and more organisations have created good talent pools and see the benefits of promoting from within people whose careers they have helped develop – rather than recruiting from outside. However, there is another side to the coin....Read More

Volkswagen and Ford have unveiled new strategies to boost ‘smart’ motoring and connected cars. Giant German car-maker VW said its new ‘TOGETHER – Strategy 2025’ marks ‘the biggest change process in the Volkswagen Group’s history’ and its ‘evolution from car manufacturer into a world-leading provider of sustainable mobility’. It is accelerating hard into the areas...Read More