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CarFinance 247, the Young Gun-founded<\/a> online motor finance firm, has announced three senior level appointments, a “new brand identity” and a new website to support its expansion plans throughout 2017.<\/p>\n

Julie Atkinson joins as compliance director from Different Money, Matthew Williams has taken on the role of head of learning & development and Andrew Haines becomes head of marketing.<\/p>\n

The company claims to have seen its most successful year to date, with a 154% increase in turnover and a 122% rise in the value of brokered loans. The website’s new customer-facing features have been added to convert more of its six million yearly visitors into finance applications.<\/p>\n

CarFinance has also improved its website’s member’s area, which allows approved customers to search from more than 110,000 cars from vetted dealers, launched a new blog #CarTorque <\/em>and created a new employee training division Academy 247.<\/p>\n

Louis Rix, co-founder of CarFinance 247, said: “We have reinvested in the business on the back of a phenomenal couple of years and completely overhauled our marketing, most significantly to the hub of our operation – the website – to capitalise on the traffic we’re now achieving and the fact that brand awareness is at an all-time high.”<\/p>\n

Williams, who will oversee Academy 247, added: “We have created a new internal brand, Academy 247, that encompasses all of our development activity within the business.<\/p>\n

“Its aim is to become a world-class learning and talent programme and to provide our employees with exceptional personal and career development support, supporting new starters and nurturing talent from within.”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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