Throughout 2025 the Service Dealer Weekly Update arrived with you, our valued dealer readers, each and every Friday bang on noon (mostly!).
We continued our brief to deliver you all the news relevant to your business - covering the exciting, sad, unusual, shocking and uplifting.
As has become traditional in our first Weekly Update back after the Christmas and New Year break, we today present the ten stories that received the most opens during the past 12 months.
So without further ado, in ascending order, here's what you read the most in 2025:
10.
MKM COMPLETE CLOSURE IN LIQUIDATION - 7th February 2025
Anthony Deacon spoke to Service Dealer about completing the closure of his dealership in liquidation, saying "Despite best efforts to close and remain solvent I received professional advice and instructed an Insolvency Practitioner to enter the company into voluntary liquidation."
9.
RVT OWNERS ALERT ADMINISTRATORS - 22nd August 2025
Burton-based Dunstall Holdings who owned dealers Rea Valley Tractors and Teme Valley Tractors, posted a notice of intention to appoint administrators via law firm Eversheds Sutherland.
8.
DOE ANNOUNCE CHANGES TO BRANCH STRUCTURE - 10th October 2025
Ernest Doe & Sons Ltd announced a series of changes which they said were designed to "strengthen its coverage, improve operational efficiency, and provide customers across Essex with greater flexibility and choice."
7.
THREE NEW DEALERS APPOINTED - 3rd January 2025
Boss ORV announced the appointment of three new dealers for Corvus Off-Road Vehicles - Used 4 Turf, DJS Hydraulics Agricultural & Plant Repairs and Chantry Engineers.
6.
TOP DEALERS AWARDED - 28th February 2025
New Holland announced the winners of their 2024 UK and Ireland Dealer of the Year Awards, which they say celebrated the accomplishments of their dealer network across UK and Ireland.
5.
DEALERSHIP EXPANDS AFTER RETIREMENT OF NEIGHBOURING DEALER - 28th March 2025
RSM Beare, JCB’s agricultural dealer covering east Cornwall and mid- to south Devon, expanded its operations to cover all of Cornwall with the addition of the former Truro Farm Machinery depot and staff following the retirement of TFM owner Bob Jones.
4.
HENTON & CHATTELL CONFIRM OFFICIAL ACQUISITION - 25th July 2025
Henton and Chattell confirmed they had officially taken over the Newark branch from Farmstar Ltd, marking the next stage in their ambitious growth strategy.
3.
KUBOTA EXPAND THREE DEALERSHIPS' AREAS - 21st March 2025
Kubota (UK) Ltd implemented a series of changes to three of its dealer sales areas - expanding the territories of Hopkins Machinery, Pallisers of Hereford and Lister Wilder.
2.
TWO MAJOR TRACTOR MAKERS FORM PARTNERSHIP - 14th February 2025
AGCO Corporation and SDF signed a supply agreement that they said would offer farmers a streamlined low-mid range horsepower tractor portfolio for AGCO’s Massey Ferguson brand.
1.
HENTON & CHATTELL BUY SITE FROM FELLOW DEALER - 24th January 2025
Henton and Chattell announced that it had signed Heads of Terms to acquire the Newark depot from Farmstar Ltd which would allow them to enhance their operations and strengthen its position as a dealer in agricultural, groundcare, and garden machinery.
