THE Winchester Motor Group has been on the expansion trail with the acquisition of Bournemouth and Pooles Mitsubishi dealership, Poole Car Centre.

The company, which operates the Southgate Peugeot dealership in Winchester, has also bought the Peugeot and Citroen dealerships in Andover which will trade under the same name.

New managing director is Simon Moulton, who along with his father and two other investors constitute the directors of the business. Although under new ownership, Mr Moulton, 27, says the Dorset dealership will retain its name and identity.

Poole Car Centre has a very good reputation with its local customers who are very loyal to the Mitsubishi brand and we are hoping to continue that reputation, said Mr Moulton who has worked for the past five years for a Vauxhall dealership in Southampton and Hythe.

All the staff at the company have been retained and apart from creating more customer parking, Mr Moulton says they have no immediate plans to change the business.

It all works very well at the moment, it is a very high profile site and there isnt much to do to improve it at the moment.

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