Stoneacre Motor Group is a

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group based in the United Kingdom, having been established in December 1994. The company started trading by acquiring ''Stoneacre'' in 1994, a used car dealership based in

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that had gone

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. Stoneacre offers new and used car sales, as well as many aftersales services such as car servicing and MOTs. In the year to April 2019, Stoneacre had registered a turnover of £982m on its way to a targeted turnover of over £1 billion come 2020, while pre-tax profits rose to £17m (a 25 per cent increase year over year).

Acquisitions

In December 2014, Staffordshire-based ''Randles Motor Group'', with a turnover of £30 million, was acquired by the company. Stoneacre followed this up with the acquisition of the Chesterfield-based ''Autoworld'', an £80m-turnover group, in 2015. Stoneacre added

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and Mitsubishi to its portfolio in 2017 through the acquisition of ''Gilder Group'' in

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and

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. In 2018, the franchise dealership completed multiple purchases, starting with the acquisition of ''Chris Variava'' in

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, before obtaining two showrooms from ''Burrows Motor Company'' in Sheffield. In March, Stoneacre completed the purchase of ''Platts Garage'' in Stafford, a dealership with multiple franchises. Later in the year, the purchase of ''Mill Garages North East'' was completed, a

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dealership with three showrooms in the North East and one in

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(Knaresborough). Initially delayed by the Covid outbreak, Stoneacre completed the buyout of ''Hodgson Motor Group'' in the summer of 2020, adding

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to its list of franchises and four additional showrooms in the North East.

Aston Martin

In early 2015, Stoneacre opened a purpose-built, 14-car Aston Martin showroom at Newcastle's Silverlink Retail and Business Park. The opening night of the showroom saw the public debut of the DB11, which kick-started the

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firm's 'Second Century' plan, with then Aston Martin CEO, Andy Palmer, also in attendance.

Stoneacre Cup

June 2019 saw the inaugural Stoneacre Cup take place at the

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Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

—

Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club play their home games at ...

' home ground—organised through Stoneacre's sponsorship of the

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football club. The aim of the Stoneacre Cup is to invite local

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s in the Doncaster area to play in an inter-schools football tournament, with eight teams playing in this first running of the competition. The Covid outbreak halted plans for a second running in 2020.

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