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Used car sales slump
* Biggest car dealership's profits fall * June is particularly bad * Company car sales rise, though...
Tumbling used car prices have been blamed for a 37% fall in profits at Britain's largest car dealership group, Pendragon.
A Pendragon statement said that wholesale used car prices witnessed 'the biggest single monthly reduction in over five years in June.
The drop-off was particularly marked for large executive and off-road vehicles.
However, while private sector registrations fell by 4.9% in the first six months of 2008, demand for company cars increased by 2%.
Despite this, though, the company still made 21.1 million pre-tax profit.
In the first six months of last year it made 33.5 million.
