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Sign Up. It could grow more.”. We’ve been pumping so many vehicles through the UK, and if you cut that – which you can do while maintaining or boosting profit – the total falls. A key part of this is a 25% increase in our LCV volume. Will there be a further consolidation? He came out of a brief retirement to join PSA in 2014. In terms of sales, the Mokka saw its numbers drop by … We'll only use your personal information for administration purposes and to provide the products and services you have requested. PSA believes Distrigo will increase parts revenues for the group and its distribution hubs. “This is what is differentiating the UK car market from the markets in Europe. Norman, who turned 64 in August, said he will see his plan through and added he has no intention to stop working until he’s 70. It won’t be viable for all. “The UK market is so oversupplied and over-invested that it’s extremely difficult to make decent unit margins. “The Mokka is very stylish compared with what came before,” said Vauxhall CEO Steve Norman. But I do think in the future (there will be some shared representation). 8. “This is my strategy, which is designed to solve the problems I see here. Stephen Norman has been appointed managing director of Vauxhall Motors and Opel Ireland, succeeding Rory Harvey who has elected to leave the business at … You can also see the change already happening with our new vans.”. But the issue is we’re part of a supply chain that relies on a certain volume of registrations to get certain unit costs from the factories and so on. Steve Norman from Vauxhall reacts to the... Jump to. That’s not to say we know everything.”. He said he needs Vauxhall to be attainable, progressive with technology, and ingenious. I think that’s true of almost all brands. Brexit could be a trigger. It wants the Eurorepar and OES products to complement dealers’ existing trade parts sales, securing sales from franchised dealers and independents who are servicing competitor marques. It’ll take time, but it can be done.”. Government sets the rhetoric, and I don’t think it’s too late to change it.”. “There were many, but very rapidly after arriving I decided that the principle issue facing the brand was marketing. You can stop receiving these messages from us at any time in the future via the unsubscribe link on any email received, or by contacting us directly. Norman said input is sought from the Vauxhall franchise board. “He’s never let me down, and I’m not about to let him down.”. “Over time, as the British motor industry inevitably rationalises, we will be in a stronger position than most because we have four brands. Vauxhall has a long and illustrious history, and the British marque chose to demonstrate just how long by taking its second-oldest surviving vehicle on the Run. Bond Steve. “This is not a job for bullsh*tters,” he explained. “Sometimes you have to ruffle feathers, but the baseline is that the network know bloody well that they’re indispensable. Steve Norman. Britishness alone isn’t going to sell cars, but it’s a differentiator. As consumer confidence began to recover after the recession it was slow to join the PCP surge, sticking instead with its Flexible Finance five-year hire purchase offering until finally bringing in PCP in 2014. The UK’s leading event for motor retailers. After Groupe PSA took control of Vauxhall and Opel last year, the business developed its strategic PACE! “Not enough. “Who blinks first will be interesting. It has considered the likely evolution of all the brands in the whole market, as well as the likely evolution of Vauxhall, and the profitability outlook for each and every single market area. That doesn’t mean it works when we try, but there’s certainly no reason why Vauxhall can’t be as successful as Volkswagen in the UK. Seattle, WA. In the next decade, Vauxhall will trade with a dealer network almost a third smaller than it had at the start of 2018. We'd like to assure you that Haymarket Media Group takes your privacy seriously. After the new generation Corsa arrives at the end of 2019, that will be followed by a whole range of hybrid and pure electric vehicles. Their initial reaction was to say it wouldn’t be easy – not least because profitability implies increased pricing for the consumer. This means having 46 hubs which distribute firstly parts branded for the Peugeot, Citroen, DS and Vauxhall brands, secondly parts from PSA’s Eurorepar all-makes operation, and thirdly OES (original equipment supplier) parts from manufacturers such as Bosch, SKF and Valeo. In future the brand will remain biased towards fleet sales. And whereas GM Europe included all core conditions within its contracts which were last created in 2013, under PSA the new Vauxhall contract has conditions within annexes which will be published annually, to allow for some flexibility. But I’m not going to do that until I can see incremental sales coming from our new product. He was charged with a return to profitability – a goal that has inevitably … Its light van sales are meagre currently but Norman wants more Combo Cargo vans on Britain’s roads, and believes the Luton-built Vivaro panel van can more than double its current sales. Who expects Poltrona Frau sofas? 25. The signs already seem positive, with the Corsa-e scooping The Sun 2020 Car of the Year award. Steve Norman, Vauxhall’s managing director, told the BBC that the 2030 date was “a little bit tighter than we were expecting” but added that “plans are in place to meet that goal – and meet it we’re going to have to”. Until then, Vauxhall was barely bigger than it is today, he said. Wilson Ken. “We will become a significant force in the UK’s parts distribution model. Email or Phone: Password : Forgot account? Columbia Business School, +2 more. We’re beholden to them.”. Transport News Brief caught up with Vauxhall’s Managing Director, Stephen Norman, to talk about the company’s plans. Vauxhall boss Stephen Norman believes the UK’s virus lockdown is encouraging car buyers to embrace a new phone-based direct sales system his company is … In 2017’s 362,149 registration LCV market Vauxhall took a 7.8% share (28,368 units), placing it fifth in the sector behind Ford, Volkswagen, Peugeot and Mercedes-Benz. “Volume has been part of Vauxhall’s culture since 1939. “I think it’s time to think out of the box. I believe we’re realistic there, and I have issues with some of the massive facilities with extremely expensive content I’ve seen go up for the premium brands. Norman said this means that fleets benefit from a centre focused on vans, but small businesses will still be able to purchase from their local dealers. To that end, he has hired a new marketing director, Patrick Fourniol, who has experience in brand enhancement, customer-centric innovation and accelerating digitalisation, gained from senior marketing and sales roles with Toyota, Renault and Volkswagen. Yes vehicle sales need to become more profitable, yes we need to dial down on pre-registrations. Vauxhall has always been approachable, but I’m not sure we’ve been progressive or ingenious enough in recent years.”. We’ll at the very least break even or make small profits on the first electric vehicles.”, “I’m not an expert, but there’s a PSA theory that it could rise again as emissions regulations tighten. Norman, with his strong marketing background, said a key driver for Vauxhall’s future prosperity will be “the quality of the new car marketing we’re going to be able to do”. AM visited Griffin House to meet Norman six months after he stepped up from his previous role as PSA’s chief sales and marketing officer to lead Vauxhall’s recovery. Why do retailers of modest cars need costly, manufacturer-prescribed outlets? Norman, who drives an Insignia company car, said Vauxhall must build on its current messaging, which uses statements such as ‘True Brit’ and ‘Drool Britannia’ to emphasise that Vauxhall has been a British brand since 1903. LONDON -- PSA Group named industry veteran Stephen Norman to lead its UK Vauxhall brand, just … “In 2018 we’re not asking dealers to put up signage or build exclusive showrooms to display vans. We have the most fantastically loyal customer base, but our level of conquest is woefully inadequate. And we’re taking a miserly share of it, so that’s where the opportunity lies,” said Norman. Please see our Full Privacy Notice. “One of the worries we should have is if we do go into a hard Brexit, and there is a massive correction in the UK market, people will say ‘well that’s Brexit for you’. In the medium term Vauxhall’s share of the new car market will regain some lost ground – around 9% by 2020 is the plan. We must stick to our guns.”. Our cars must be good enough, but we want to stand out and in turn be considered by buyers. Norman said: “Having started his marketing career in sales forecasting and research, and having taken responsibility for product marketing and marketing communications, Patrick is one of the few top-level automotive professionals who can genuinely claim 360-degree marketing management experience in our industry. We just needed to be a bit more strategic and visionary in the way we think of that potential. I think it’s a problem that probably needs simple solutions that must be coherent and consistent. View Stephen Norman’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. “We’ve all got responsibility for getting the good times rolling, but the retailers are guiding us every step of the way. “Just how profitable the UK market can become, leaving exchange rates aside, will be almost totally dependent not on Brexit but on right-sizing. He was charged with a return to profitability – a goal that has inevitably wrought change for the brands and their retailers. The cost base must come down. To avoid this requirement please register or login. Certainly not. And that’s what we did. Are all your cars profitable for you and for retailers today? Do you have the ingredients to deliver your goal? “There’s no greater satisfaction for a motor trade individual than in selling a great product at a reasonable price to a modest person,” he said. He said to me: ‘We’re waiting for your strategic vision.’ It was like manna from heaven. But this is not planned for the short term. It’s not a unique strategy. There may be some who do by accident, but you certainly don’t desire to. Back office jobs will move to PSA UK’s Coventry base and other staff will relocate to offices at its parts distribution centre beside the M1 outside Luton. That’s bigger than the Dutch car market and the same as Belgium’s, but few people even talk about vans. Vauxhall will make changes to how it sells trade parts too. PwC, +5 more. Because the marketing is not quite good enough. We didn’t have time to mess around.”. Having started in 1976 with The Rover Group, where he rose to become marketing director, Norman made his name as head of Volkswagen in France and as Fiat’s global marketing director, before joining Renault in 2008 to lead marketing and comms. Compare what we take with what we need and you see massive over-consumption. “Another issue will be the investments we’ll be asking our retailers to make, notably in electrification equipment. Vauxhall Chevette 2300 HSR: 6: UK National #23: Moody Dennis. Ford Escort RS 1800 MKII: 6: UK National #22: Marshall George. “The van market is different, though. Thomas Bryan. In March, AM revealed the brand planned to cut around one in three dealerships, leaving thousands of jobs at risk; the subsequent media storm was not the discreet start that new managing director Stephen Norman would have wanted. Crucial. 1989, Alnwick • asphalt • Other years “I’m not saying there should be spit and sawdust on the floor, but there has to be a happy medium, else we haven’t learnt any of the contemporary lessons. View the profiles of people named Steve Norman. He said tactical registrations “have become very much the norm in the UK market over the past 15 years”, which is something he is very concerned about. He said he isn’t sure that the role of managing director of a national sales company should be given to executives who are still climbing their career ladder. If you do, you haven’t seen what’s happening in the world, have you?”. “The Mokka is very stylish compared with what came before,” Vauxhall CEO Steve Norman told Automotive News Europe. ALN Motor Company Tyneside Stage Rally 1989. Sunseeker Power Boats Winter Rally 1995. is a part of Haymarket Motoring brought to youby Haymarket Consumer Media. We’re asking them to be trained and competent.”. Ford Escort RS 1800 MKII: 6: UK National #21: Gough Richard . Asked whether Vauxhall has pushed its network too hard to pre-register, Norman said it has, but “the market is so overcooked” because many other brands are doing so too. But I don’t think it will be a plan from us; I think it will be very much an obvious thing that will be seen first by the dealers themselves.”. “A few weeks in, I rang the head of the dealer council at the time and asked what was happening. Both Adams and new Vauxhall CEO Steve Norman say Opel-Vauxhall has much more autonomy within the PSA Group than under GM, where it made products that … How have the retailers reacted to your arrival? Is the UK market really ripe for profitable volume growth? “Yes. Please leave a comment, Vauxhall MD Stephen Norman: "This is not a job for bullsh*tters". Fill in your details below and a member of the What Car? Closer to home, Vauxhall’s ageing Griffin House headquarters in Luton will close in 2019, and the freehold is likely to be sold for redevelopment. That is where our Vauxhall CEO Steve Norman could see an opportunity to help. Norman said the VBCs do not need to already be Vauxhall dealers, nor PSA franchisees. That executives come in to quickly make a mark and move on is understandable, but unacceptable, he added. Come 2020, the average return on sales for a Vauxhall outlet should climb to around the current UK industry average of 1% according to ASE, from its 2017 base of 0.4%.

(Metal Hammer) 07 November 2017. ​Find out what features are in this month's, and future, issues, © Bauer Consumer Media Ltd Norman said that having identified sites that are unlikely to be viable in the medium term, Vauxhall has a responsibility to give these dealerships the notice that they need to consider other brands and options rather than to wait for them to suddenly fail. I don’t believe there’s any manufacturer that’s going to go into electrification and lose money. 5 [timestamp] => 1546095600 [fixture_id] => 10337335 [hts_A] => 1 You should avoid betting on these underdogs. It has three clear values: we want to be approachable, progressive and ingenious – so solutions to technical problems may not be the classical ones. He added the plan has been developed with the other PSA brands’ networks in mind, and in the long term, as the industry rationalises, he does expect some chances for shared representation. There will be “simple standards” for the VBCs that won’t include bricks and mortar. It is also a quarter of the way towards its ambitions for a network of 650 UK independent garages under the Eurorepar brand by 2021. This month the group announced Vauxhall/Opel is already back in the black, with a half-year operating profit of €502m. He said seeing 30% of registrations in the last three days is a sign of “more than overheating”. At that point, I knew what they were expecting of me. team will be in touch shortly.Alternatively call 020 8267 4138. That cut was a first step. Is that where ‘British Brand Since 1903’ came from? So the answer has to be yes. But the PSA Group has shown that it can achieve such things.”. “During this transition we have to make a strong statement about what Vauxhall is,” he said. The brand wants to recruit dealers with expertise in van sales – some may be from within the network, some not. We’re chasing something that is very practical. “It’s a 350,000 vehicles market come rain or shine. “Yes. “The agency asked how long they had, thinking it’d be the typical six months. So I’m not laying the blame on the network.”. Stephen has 4 jobs listed on their profile. That’s the view of Vauxhall Motors boss Steve Norman interviewed in What Car Insight this month. That doesn’t mean marketing was done badly, just that it didn’t meet what I felt was needed. Vauxhall has given its designers "a free remit" to overhaul the styling of its models, according to UK managing director Steve Norman, as the brand looks to bring back a golden age of design. UK National #1. It’s not forever and its arrival during the Brexit discussions was a coincidence. Famous name. Accessibility Help. Do you feel the pressure from Carlos Tavares at PSA HQ? Sections of this page. plan. In fact, you could say probably. I am thinking about competitor brands and about truck dealers,” he said. 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We badly needed vehicles that had spontaneous desirability levels, and now that’s what we’re getting, especially with the new Corsa and Mokka X. “We want to be on the podium – excluding nobody – for purchase satisfaction score and service satisfaction score by 2021. Steve Norman from Vauxhall reacts to the... "An electric vehicle is actually cheaper to run, including purchase costs than the petrol/diesel equivalent." Norman said: “We do know where we are, and we do have an idea of where we need to go and how to do it. 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A multi-award-winning news journalist, Tom is news and features editor for Bauer Media’s AM brand. identified the dealers that will continue its representation by examining each of its 220 market areas in depth. “A Vauxhall is a great car for the modest man, and if that doesn’t sound inspirational, I’d argue that it’s not meant to be inspirational to people who desperately need a premium German brand to exist socially. Join Facebook to connect with Steve Norman and others you may know. “One slight insight is that the company felt a bit defeatist. All Vauxhall retailers will offer LCVs, but Vauxhall will create 50 to 75 Van Business Centres (VBCs), which will engage with major fleets and provide the rest of the network with the vans they’ll retail. If you are not a registered user your comment will go to AM for approval before publishing. Vauxhall boss Steve Norman told the BBC that the 2030 dates was "a little bit tighter than we were expecting" but added that "plans are in place to meet that goal – … “They don’t. “The new products can change that, so long as we get the marketing right. The onus is now on Vauxhall to deliver the plan, to show dealers who’ve seen other managing directors come and go after making promises. Its market share ambitions should bring a steady resurgence in sales of cars and vans from the lows the brand currently endures, helping to restore franchisees’ profitability. “I have no intention of cocking this up,” he said. The machine needs to keep moving, and the UK has a large population and is relatively well off. Fleetwood Town vs Portsmouth Prediction Verdict: After a thorough analysis of stats, recent form and H2H through BetClan's algorithm, as well as, tipsters advice for the match Fleetwood Town vs Portsmouth this is our Prediction: A Draw in the match has a probability of 36%. The industry has been pushing in so much volume that we’re over-supplied with cars. I have a contract until March 2021, and I don’t intend to stop there.”, To run bespoke brand reports using whatcar.com market data, please contact insights@haymarket.com, What Car? 1995, Bournemouth • gravel • Other years “Then there’s the brand. Dytham Stuart. I’ve rearranged a few things, but I haven’t thrown anything out. 2. For 2018 it’s bringing the second-oldest surviving Vauxhall, the 5HP from 1903, which will be piloted by Vauxhall’s Managing Director, Steve Norman, and former Communications Director, Denis Chick. I said: ‘Well, three weeks will scare you, so how about six weeks?’. “I bother him as little as possible, and he sees our results on a daily and weekly basis, so he knows what’s happening without feeling my collar. We have some good new products coming soon, too.”, “If they can’t be, we’re all condemned. He will report to Peter Christian Kuespert, Sales, Marketing and Aftersales Managing Director of Opel/Vauxhall. Why aren’t incremental sales coming quickly enough? “When people say ‘Vauxhall today is a shadow of what it was’, I insist it’s a shadow of what it became almost overnight through the most brilliant piece of engineering and marketing that was the Cavalier,” he said. Vauxhall has identified the dealers that will continue its representation by examining each of its 220 market areas in depth. You’ve retired once before; will you see this through? I’d say south of two million [sales per year] is healthy – so at least 10-15% below where we are now. What was your first task when you arrived at Vauxhall? This 1903 5HP was the 45th made by the company, and was piloted by Vauxhall’s Managing Director, Steve Norman, and former Communications Director, Denis Chick. Norman believes people should not get hung up on Vauxhall’s past market share, which has been in double-digits since the conservative Vauxhall Cavalier stole company car drivers away from the initially too-radical Ford Sierra. PSA Group’s takeover of Vauxhall/Opel completed in August last year, and in November its chief executive Michael Lohscheller announced a plan, branded PACE, to restore the business to profitability by 2020 through savings and efficiencies, including job cuts. “Profitable volume growth, with equal importance on both sides of that equation; it’s not volume growth at the expense of profit, and it’s not profit at the expense of volume. With effect from February 1st 2018, Stephen Norman is appointed Managing Director of Vauxhall Motors and Opel Ireland. Doesn’t that mean more bad news for Vauxhall dealers? I think that’s true of almost all brands. “We’ve gone from a peak of around 330 to 260. Motorsport UK Tarmac #6. New contracts will be sent out to the retained dealers by the end of 2018, and will come into effect on May 1, 2020. It’s where the market is at, due to demand for contract hire and PCP, he said. It has no aspirations to be premium, but Norman sees a need to become what it was in decades past – a reference point, like Ford and Volkswagen are now. “The UK market is so over-supplied and over-invested that it’s extremely difficult to make decent unit margins. In fact, one of my motivations to deliver results is keeping off his radar! The majority of the dealerships which will lose the Vauxhall franchise by 2020 are satellite operations within dealer groups, and 12 are solus Vauxhall investors, he said. In the LCV market Vauxhall aims to double its market share over the next two years to around 15% (potentially more than 40,000 registrations), to become the second largest brand in the van market, through a combination of product  and professionalism. 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Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, The world’s biggest and best metal magazine. Increase your leads and gain access to over 20 million in-market car buyers every year. We’re going to become independent distributors of not only our own parts but other people’s parts. “I remember when Vauxhall was great, but the greatness it had is a greatness we’re going to build back.”. Ford Escort RS 1800 MKII: 6 #20: Chilman Roger. People have criticised Vauxhall understandably for being a bit staid and not getting on with the job, so as we look to refranchise vans it would be a very funny thing if we just said to our 326 retailers, ‘Which of you wants to be the 50 to 75 VBCs?’. Norman has worked for Rover, VW, Fiat and Renault during his career. How important is the LCV market to Vauxhall under PSA ownership? 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Initially, it won’t be loss-making. Is there a plan today that says in any particular town it will be he who lives and he who doesn’t? I will hang my hat on the results of that. While General Motors fought to preserve that market share, under pressure from company car drivers’ shift towards premium brands, doing so has proved costly and PSA is picking up the pieces. As part of PSA Group, it will follow the group’s aftermarket parts distribution model, branded Distrigo. That’s certainly something I’ve tried to change. Facebook. Vauxhall has given its designers "a free remit" to overhaul the styling of its models, according to UK managing director Steve Norman, as the brand looks to bring back a golden age of design. Steve Norman PwC Customer Experience Director. 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