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Stanton joins Volvo in business sales role

Role of New Business Sales Manager has been created with a specific focus on seeking new contract opportunities with businesses that may not have purchased Volvos for a number of years.
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16 April 2019

VOLVO Car UK has appointed Carl Stanton as New Business Sales Manager, as part of an increased focus on fleet for the brand.

Stanton has more than 20 years’ experience within operations and sales in the motor industry, including fleet, retail and rental. He joins Volvo from Vauxhall Motors, where he spent more than a decade in various UK and Pan-European roles.

The role of New Business Sales Manager has been created with a specific focus on seeking new contract opportunities with businesses that may not have purchased Volvos for a number of years.

Steve Beattie, Head of Business Sales at Volvo Car UK, said: “We restructured our Business Sales team in 2018, which reaped significant rewards. Just recently we announced our investment in a dedicated Virtual Sales Team to support the needs of our SME customers, which is already proving to be a great success.

“Now  we are ensuring we place equal importance on our large corporate prospects, particularly those to whom we haven’t spoken in recent years.”

In 2018 Volvo Car UK secured business from over 640 companies that hadn’t purchased a Volvo in the past four years, if ever, with its true fleet sales increasing 16% between July and December. With fleet and retail combined, Volvo sold a total of 50,000 cars in the UK for the first time in 28 years, taking a 2.1% share of the market to become the fastest growing premium brand.

 

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Chris Wright

Chris Wright

Chris Wright has been covering the automotive industry nationally and internationally for 30 years. Following spells with consumer titles he became News Editor of Automotive Management (AM), Editor of Automotive International, International Editor for Detroit-based Automotive News, and Editor of Dealer Update. He has also co-authored several FT Management Reports and contributes regularly to Justauto.com

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