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  • Howards achieves GOLD in the Toyota Best Employer in Town Accreditation
  • 23 December 2024

    Howards achieves GOLD in the Toyota Best Employer in Town Accreditation

    We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded Gold in Toyota’s Best Employer in Town (BEiT) Accreditation.

The BEiT Accreditation is a People Standard and Framework that shows a business is supporting, improving and leading its people. It shows we are actively developing our workplace culture and people processes for our employees.

As the world of work evolves and the pace of change accelerates, organisational culture, support for our staff development and staff engagement become even more important in attracting and retaining the best people. Finding and retaining quality people is a strategic priority for us to be the Best Retailer in Town.

We were proud to recently welcome members of Toyota UK to our retailer to present this award to our team. 

Howards Toyota Award


What did we have to do to be awarded Gold?

Toyota assessed us against their Standard at three levels – Bronze, Silver and Gold. This is a specific framework that looks at how we are looking after our people. Achieving Gold accreditation shows that we are operating as a progressive, ‘Best in Class’ employer, demonstrating innovative approaches to recruitment, development, employee engagement and transforming our retailer through continuous improvement.

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Our feedback was exceptional, and the results gave us a Gold Accreditation which is the highest accolade.

 “Howards Toyota clearly demonstrates achievement at the Gold level of the BEiT standard. There is an ethos of nurturing and growing talent from within.”

 The accreditation also identified that…

“Howards has a robust recruitment process in place and an in depth induction and development programme for all new starters, all designed to deliver a best in class customer experience”.


What’s next?

We are so delighted to have been awarded Gold. We know where we’ve come from in terms of our people journey, how we’ve developed, but it is great to recognise this achievement, highlight the good practice at Howards and celebrate it! We believe this effort will help us to continue in attracting great people and retaining them. All the efforts have been worthwhile. Whilst candidates consider career moves and at a time when employee experience, leadership and performance is more important than ever, it’s great to have this Accreditation to help us differentiate ourselves from competitors.


If you think you’d be a good fit for Howards, you can view our vacancies here Careers At Howards Motor Group

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