Used supermarket Hilton Garage signs up with Cox Automotive

Hilton Garage has signed an exclusive deal with Cox Automotive to dispose of around 3,000 vehicles a year through Manheim Auction Services.

Family-owned Hilton Garage Car Supermarket near Derby, one of the largest purpose-built car supermarket sites in Britain, will also deploy Cox Automotive’s eVA platform for real-time, online and in-store vehicle valuations as part of the two-year deal.

Sam Panayides, sales director at Cox Automotive, said: “We are extremely pleased to agree terms with Hilton Garage, a long-established and proud automotive presence whose well-known reputation for great customer service neatly matches our own. They have committed a considerable volume of vehicles into our auction channels and that’s great news for our customers, especially as demand for stock remains so high.”

Hilton Garage director George Manning said recent years had demonstrated the business’s resilience and that Hilton’s lack of reliance on outside funding had stood them in good stead.

He added: “Hilton Garage has been around for a long time and it gives us enormous pleasure to push a significant amount of trade stock through Manheim’s auction channels. Cox Automotive and Hilton have a lot in common, in terms of our commitment to customer service and our values, so this is an easy fit.

“Just as important to us is how Cox Automotive does business in the right way, which means not competing with their customers in the retail market and that is an approach that we are fully behind.”

Hilton is the latest used car supermarket to sign with Cox Automotive. In summer of last year, four supermarkets agreed deals. They have joined the likes of Big Motoring World and Available Car in choosing to push trade vehicles through Manheim auction channels. 

The 100-vehicle-strong launch sale of Hilton stock begins at 10am on Wednesday 17 January at Manheim Birmingham.

All copyrights for this article are reserved to UK Recruiter