Brayleys has purchased its first Hyundai dealership in St Albans from family-owned enterprise Coupers for an undisclosed sum.

The town centre website has been Hertfordshire’s authorised seller for Hyundai for greater than 30 years and can add Hyundai to Brayleys’ portfolio of manufacturers, together with Kia, Honda, Mazda, Renault and Dacia.

AW Rostamani Group now owns 100% of the enterprise Paul Brayley based in 2003. He was appointed CEO of each Brayleys and West Means Nissan, which was lately acquired the Dubai-based group.

Commenting on the acquisition of Hyundai St Albans, which was brokered by automotive consultancy MotorVise, Brayley, mentioned: “I’m delighted on the acquisition of Coupers, which has a protracted and proud heritage in St Albans. It has additional that means for me because it was additionally the beginning location for Brayleys 20 years in the past, after I took over the Honda franchise within the metropolis. The addition of Hyundai will additional broaden our buyer attain throughout the Residence Counties and strengthens our place as one of many largest privately-owned automotive retailers within the South East.”

Paul Kendall, managing director of Coupers, mentioned the corporate’s 24 workers would switch over to Brayleys, below the phrases of the acquisition: “It is vitally a lot enterprise as typical on the dealership in Catherine Avenue, and I do know each the crew and valued prospects might be in nice fingers with Brayleys, who will proceed our custom of delivering distinctive customer support.”

Earlier this 12 months, Brayleys additionally made its debut rating within the record of Finest Workplaces compiled by Nice Place To Work® UK primarily based on suggestions supplied by workers about total well being and wellbeing, each inside and outdoors the office.

On reaching this, Brayley mentioned: “Brayleys takes nice pleasure in making the enterprise really feel very very like a household. To have that formally recognised publicly, primarily based on the views of your crew, is a unbelievable achievement for the corporate and we stay up for welcoming the workers from Coupers into the group.”