Success for Progress WorkshopPro customers at Motor Trader Awards

Progress helped a number of customers to enter the Motor Trader Awards and was delighted by the results! On 13th July Progress hosted a table of various customers and VIP guests at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

On the guest list were:

Finalist Mark Tyers Sytner Leicester After Sales Manager
Finalist Simon Dyer Berry BMW Heathrow After Sales Manager
Finalist Jonathan Bischoff JCB Medway       Dealer Principal
Finalist   Katan Wara Porsche Hatfield Service Advisor
  Franc Mateo Porsche Hatfield After Sales Manager
  John Dean John Dean & Associates Managing Director
  Ed China Wheeler Dealers Television Presenter
  Imogen China NA Wife of Ed China
  James Titchener Head of Marketing Enterprise Hire Rental
  Christopher Turnbull Group Rental Manager            Enterprise Hire Rental


Katan Wara won the award ‘Highly Commended’ for ‘Service Advisor of the Year’ and Peter Vardy, Motherwell – also a WorkshopPro customer, won ‘Workshop of the Year’ award.

‘Just the fact that 5 of our customers were announced ‘finalists’ for the awards is a huge testament to the success of WorkshopPro in terms of improving processes for our customers’ said Logan Naidoo, Sales Director at Progress. ‘We are delighted that Porsche Hatfield has won the ‘Highly Commended’ accolade and we also congratulate Peter Vardy on their success as ‘Workshop of the Year’.

Edd China, TV personality of ‘Wheeler Dealers’ also joined Progress for the Awards Ceremony. The television series is now finished and Edd is in the process of building a new enterprise – state of the art workshop and garage – in Bracknell, Berkshire. Edd will be using WorkshopPro to automate the processes within his business and will be working with Progress to promote the brand.

Left to Right – Neil Stewart (General Sales Manager Progress), Edd China (Cummfybanana.co.uk), Imogen China, Elvira Naidoo, Franc Mateo (After Sales Manager Porsche Hatfield), Logan Naidoo (Sales Director Progress), Katan Wara (Service Advisor Porsche Hatfield).