Making sense of a changing landscape

There continues to be really big changes in the broker market: acquisitions, alterations at the top, and some well-established faces moving away from the sector. The latest is Marc McLoughlin who now exits the broker world – see our lead story.

But there’s also continuing agitation in the new car market as our analysis of January’s registration figures shows. Yes, numbers are up, but how much of it was a forced market? We believe quite a lot – read our story Push market back in force.

To help understand this constantly changing market, we’re introducing a new feature where we are analysing the van market each month, which will also include contributions from van specialist brokers: Electric vans start year short of ZEV target but overall market grows with commentary from Vansdirect.

Finally, it’s a big welcome to CLM Fleet Management which joins as our latest partner with its fixed-price broker maintenance.

Ralph Morton, editor