MG Motors UK announces the winners of its awards for sales and service.

MG Motor UK has announced the winners of its 2017 Annual Dealer Awards. The event, which took place on 12 January as part of the company’s national conference, celebrated outstanding achievement from across the network.

Nathaniel MG took home the prestigious Dealer of the Year accolade, alongside being named Top MG3 Selling Dealer. Part of the network since 2015, the Bridgend-based business was recognised for delivering exceptional service for customers across South Wales. 

Sponsor of the Welsh Premier League’s Nathaniel MG Cup, the dealership is renowned nationwide for new and used car sales. The company’s motto is simple – hard work, enthusiasm and respect offers a winning formula!

Elsewhere, the Top MG6 Selling Dealer Award was presented to Cornwall’s Falmouth Garage, while Maidstone MG took home both the Aftersales Accessories Dealer of the Year Award and Top MG GS Selling Dealer accolade. 

The event’s final two awards recognised the achievements of Dudley-based Summit Garage, which was named Parts and Accessories Aftersales Dealer of the Year and Aftersales Parts Dealer of the Year. Set to celebrate 72 years in business later in 2017, the dealership is hugely prominent in the West Midlands.

Matthew Cheyne, Head of Sales and Marketing for MG Motor UK, commented: “2016 has been a historic year for MG. Sales have grown by 33% year-on-year, making us one of the UK’s fastest-growing vehicle manufacturers. Our dedicated dealer network has played an instrumental role in this achievement and we can’t thank them enough for such passion and commitment to the MG brand. 2017 is set to be another exciting year, with more new product coming to the market.

“It’s great to see dealers from across the network identified and recognised for their individual successes, which is why our Annual Dealer Awards is such an important date in the calendar.

“We would like to thank each and every dealer in the MG network for their hard work in 2016 and wish them all the success for the year to come.”

Based in Northern Ireland, SERE Ltd sold the most units making it the Ssangyong Dealer of the year.

• SERE Ltd of Belfast has been named SsangYong Dealer of the Year.

Presented with their award at a glittering gala dinner held on board the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh, the dealership was congratulated on selling more cars than any other in the SsangYong UK dealer network.

Their achievement was made all the more significant having only held the franchise since September 2014.

Paul Williams, CEO of SsangYong Motor UK said: “Sincere congratulations to everyone at SERE - sales, aftersales and management. This is a great achievement, and a beacon to all our dealers to demonstrate what can be achieved.”

“We are naturally delighted,” commented Stanley Edgar, managing director of SERE Ltd, which is based in Boucher Road, Belfast. “This is a great accolade for the whole team who have worked so hard.  Getting a new franchise bedded into a dealership inevitably takes some time and effort.  Everyone has pulled together and the results we have achieved with SsangYong in just over a year are a credit to them all.”

Added SERE general manager, Bernard McCotter who accepted the award, “The SsangYong franchise has done extremely well since we launched just over a year ago.  We are very pleased to have received the Dealer of the Year award and are confident the franchise will continue to go from strength-to-strength.”