2nd January 2025
We are delighted to welcome Cartime to the purple lane in every Monday from the 13th January, the launch event at our Peterborough centre. Michael Tomalin CEO stated ‘We have a long term relationship with Cartime buying quality end of lease vehicles each week from our Peterborough centre. The addition of selling their part exchange vehicles is a huge benefit as we can move vehicles ..[read more].
2nd December 2024
We are delighted to confirm that we have been highly commended at the recent Motor Trader Industry Awards at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. Michael Tomalin CEO stated ‘This is our first appearance at the Motor Trader Industry Awards for Remarketing Company of the Year and to be rewarded as highly commended is a huge win for us, the fastest developing defle..[read more].
8th November 2024
We were delighted to donate the 2016 Fiat 500 auctioned and sold to the highest bidder at the Northern Ireland Motor Industry Awards on Thursday 7th November 2024 at the prestigious Crowne Plaza Hotel, Shaws Bridge, Belfast with all proceeds heading to the chosen charity Ben. Michael Tomalin stated ‘Ben is the charity dedicated to supporting the people of the automotive industry..[read more].
4th November 2024
We are delighted to report that our CEO has smashed his previous record by donating £7762 to MacMillan Cancer Support for his go sober journey throughout October 2024. Michael Tomalin CEO stated ‘An incredible achievement by each and everyone who donated to such a worthy cause. The previous year donation amount was £5400 in total and a very healthy result so to get over &p..[read more].
10th October 2024
We are delighted to advise that we have been shortlisted for ‘Medium Sized Business of the Year 2024’ at the Business Eye Awards to take place on Thursday 24th 2024 at the prestigious ICC Belfast. Winners of this special event in the business calendar will be announced at a glittering awards evening ceremony, some even say the Oscars of business in Northern Ireland celebrating..[read more].
2nd October 2024
City Auction Group has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Lee Connor as the new Head of Business Development with immediate effect. Lee has over 20 years experience in the vehicle remarketing sector having worked initially as an auction trainee moving onto fleet corporate and field sales positions and more recently as branch Auction Manager and Auctioneer. Lee was ..[read more].
20th September 2024
We are delighted to advise that we have been shortlisted for ‘Remarketing Company of the Year’ at the 34th Motor Trader Industry Awards to take place on Wednesday 20th November 2024 at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. Winners of this special event in the automotive calendar will be announced at a glittering awards evening ceremony, some even say the Os..[read more].
11th September 2024
A Peterborough-based vehicle auction company has just opened a huge new storage and headquarters facility on the edge of the city. ​City Auction Group, which is based at the Brightfield Business Hub, in Orton Southgate, is developing a new 28 acre site at Wittering to be the headquarters of its logistics business PurpleRock. The move will give the business capacity to store more than 5,000..[read more].
22nd August 2024
We are proud to advise that we have achieved a full sweep of professional accreditations for the group to ensure our corporate clients support our code of practice. Lynne Girvan, Corporate Fleet Director stated ‘Our business operates to the highest level of professional conduct and our systems are scrutinised to confirm our commitment to our development and growth across the automot..[read more].
9th August 2024
We are delighted to advise that after more than 15 months of negotiations we have officially signed off the 28 acre Wittering long term agreement to operate our PurpleRock HQ automotive defleet, logisitics and secure storage facility ideally located off the A1 north of Peterborough. Michael Tomalin CEO stated ‘Firstly I would like to thank the team from top to bottom at PurpleRock, th..[read more].