Car dealership acquires new showroom in Guildford
Bell & Colvill, a specialist car dealership in Surrey, has acquired a new showroom thanks to a £1.5m package from HSBC UK. A third of this funding package was used to refurbish the showroom, which will open this summer.
Brendan McWilliams, financial director at Bell & Colvill, said: “The Bell & Colvill story began 50 years ago in Surrey, so it’s fantastic to be able to continue to grow the brand and celebrate half a century in our home county.
“With help from HSBC UK, we have not only managed to increase capacity in our servicing and parts department but also increase our new McLaren franchise. Slyfield is a great hub for motoring and we feel very much at home here. We’re looking forward to welcoming both new and existing customers for many years to come.”
A vital step in Country Innovation creating a successful showroom is to have an organised and effective visitor monitoring and management policy.
According to a visitor management white paper by Proxyclick, two out of every five people in the 2,000 US and UK workers surveyed claim their perception of a company or brand has been negatively affected by their experience in the corporate lobby or reception area.
Our Management of Contractors and Visitors Software (MCVS) app allows visitors to book their appointments in advance in their browser. A confirmation email is sent to the visitor and to the person they are visiting (the host).
Once the visit is set up, it can be entered onto the host’s diary. This eliminates the possibility of a clueless receptionist turning someone away, or panicking unprofessionally as they try to ring the host to confirm.
For companies who don’t need or can’t afford a full-time receptionist, we can offer our Unmanned Reception App, otherwise known as the Self-Service Visitor Management App (SSVM). This app runs on any Android or iOs tablet and allows visitors to check themselves into their pre-brooked appointment without a receptionist needing to be present.
Whether checked-in by a receptionist or by themselves, once a visitor is registered in the building, they are also put onto the fire roll call list. This means that if a fire alarm sounds, the central system will print an up-to-date, real-time list of everyone who is in that building or zone. So even if the visitor has nipped to the loo on the way out of their meeting, they will not be overlooked or forgotten about.
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