Automotive retail brothers Harry and Neal Grainger have accomplished the acquisition of a second website – EMG Royston, together with a Vauxhall authorised restore station.

The positioning is a 1.6-acre plot which adjoins the Graingers’ Mantles Kia Royston website, extending its footprint there to 2.6 acres.

Earlier this yr in January, they formally develop into enterprise companions with the acquisition of Mantles, paving the best way for the creation of their new vendor group.

The sons of Norton Approach Group founder David Grainger, they fashioned the Hertfordshire-based Grainger Motor Group 5 months after leaving their positions as operations director and finance director at Norton which was acquired by Marubeni Auto Funding in 2008.

The Mantles Kia dealership amenities on York Approach, Royston, was redeveloped in 2019 after hearth tore via the ability. It affords an eight-car showroom and seven-bay workshop together with one MOT bay and has an extra off-site storage facility for used automotive inventory.

Neal Grainger mentioned on the time that there was scope for enchancment on the dealership which was Kia UK’s retailer of the yr in 2016., and noticed on-line aftersales reserving and on-line automotive gross sales as a big space of alternative along with growing each new and used automotive gross sales. Harry Grainger added that its launch ambitions had been to construct a vendor group with a number of websites.

“Since then,” he mentioned, “we now have invested in amenities, storage, inner photograph studio, elevated staffing from 35 to 55 and subsequently doubled the turnover from £12 million to £24m, growing the direct revenue by £500,000. We’ve taken the dealership from rating 76th in 2022 within the Kia vendor steadiness scorecard to second within the nation. With one month to go, we’re nonetheless gunning for first place and are happy to have been awarded by Popularity as a Prime 50 Vendor.”