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Mike Doyle returns as we talk about my return to pantomime in Snow White at The New Theatre Cardiff where he looked after me more than I looked after Arthur Lager. This was a labour of love recording in his dressing room and updating Eyes & Teeth on his fresh news including the Beautiful song Forever in Wales written by Lloyd Davies.Enjoy this episode as we get closer to my final season...Welcome Mike Doyle
The lads are back with what should be a very special 150th episode but in true AiC fashion they’ve organised nothing. They talk the benefit of Covid being table service in pubs, the Swans play-off final loss and overview of the season and the Alex Ferguson documentary. The boys discuss the recent Mayhill riots, beep-beep effecting more than just the Trade Centre Wales mush, the AJ/Fury/Wilder fiasco and unearthing a TV gem in City on a Hill plus much much more.....
Welcome to episode seven of the Business Weekly Podcast from the team at Business News Wales: Welsh Life Sciences firm Bond Digital Health are on a mission to improve wellness, we spoke to Ian Bond to find out how he’s planning to employ new technologies to do just that. North Wales music platform Larynx Entertainment is looking to nurture the the growing welsh Hip-Hop scene and bring this growing market to the masses. Cardiff Bay video production agency, Rockadove, are offering charities in Wales a chance to win a £10,000 video project. Chris McColgan speaks to Emma Wilkins about Upcoming Business Shows One of South Wales’ most recognisable brands in the automotive sector, Trade Centre Wales, have announced record profits. Welsh ICE tell us about their new 5-9 initiative looking to bring startup business support to the Welsh Valleys. And the Cardiff Capital region have announced a pilot scheme intended to support young graduates to ensure Wales retains the top talent coming from out universities.
On this Saturday’s episode of MotortradeRadio.com, Philip Nothard andCurtis Hutchinson of Motortrader.com to discuss the latest headlines, Ford has a launched a scrappage scheme covering all makes of cars and vans registered before the end of 2009. Whilst, The South Africa-based Imperial Holdings has acquired Pentagon Motor Holdings for an undisclosed sum. And, the Trade Centre Wales’ first site in England has doubled its monthly pre-tax profits to an average of £2m since opening in April 2017, according to a trading update issued by the group. In other news, Pendragon has confirmed its latest Evans Halshaw Car Store will open at the end of August in Ashford, Surrey. Moves by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to assess incentives for sales staff will have a “significant impact” on car sales and car financing. And finally, Dealers have already started signing up for the inaugural Motor Trader Summit taking place on 21 November at Birmingham’s Edgbaston Stadium. The special one-day event, which is free to dealers, is themed around Boosting Dealer Profitability in 2018 with a series of best practice speaker sessions covering the forthcoming GDPR rules, online customer reviews and social media marketing. Plus a shout-out to Jeremy Hicks, Managing Director. JLR UK at Jaguar Land Rover, and his team, swimming the English Channel for Ben Support For Life because It's easy to take our health for granted. On the Sunday interview episode, Derek interviews David Beeney of BreakingTheSilence.co.uk , advisor to business on how to reduce the stigma of mental health in the workplace.
Amazon is hiring staff to become an online car dealer in Europe according to German trade newspaper Automobilwoche. And the Trade Centre Wales turned in a strong performance and Cap hpi sees ‘slight easing’ in diesel values year on year.
On this Saturday’s 45-minute episode of MotortradeRadio.com, Philip Nothard and Derek Blair, discuss the week’s headlines from Motortrader.com. Auto Trader is offering dealers the opportunity to advertise their finance deals on used and new cars for free until early 2018. It will also launch a facility to search by monthly payments in the first half of 2017, profitability at the average dealer plummeted to just £187 in October compared to £7,400 a year ago, according to dealer profitability specialist ASE. Also in this week’s headlines, New car registrations in November rose 2.9%to 184,101 units and year to date registrations are ahead 2.5% to a record 2,514,764 units, driven by Fleet and the UK’s new light commercial vehicle (LCV) market soared in November with a record 29,784 units sold. DS has opened a DS Urban Store at the Westfield Shopping Centre in London. The brand joins Tesla and Infiniti in having retail stores in the shopping centre as the three brands target shoppers. In other news, The Trade Centre Wales is to open its second new superstore within nine months with the group moving out of Wales for the first time with the opening of a 12-acre, 1,200-car site in the West Midlands in early 2017. The number of vehicle sales completed on Friday 25 November – ‘Black Friday’ – was 23% higher than on Friday 18 November and 17% higher than on 11 November, according to analysis of sales data carried out by Dealerweb, the showroom management system provider. Also, we have two exclusive interviews; as Philip and Derek speak to Alan Harding from JA Autos, plus, Derek speaks to Will Blackshaw, MD of Blackshaws, a North East dealer group who are approaching their century in business in 2019. Will talks about MOT Juice who are an agile developer of high yield MOT websites and training & management software for MOT testing stations in the UK.