Advisory Services:
The Creator spent a decade working in many large corporate organizations - Commercial Finance, Dispute Resolution, Process implementation. Providing strong vision and understandings of Business operations across the United Kingdom.
Including RBS Insurance (reference below), PWC Price Waterhouse Coopers, and the largest privately owned Vehicle leasing company (below photo), before it was closed down in 2011.
Experienced in the Automotive Industry:
Operational and Financial behind the scenes - the day-to-day activities of storing preservation are handled successfully by the Network of individual member's. These have been selected and compliance tested over a period of 2-3 years.
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Story - Tracker Network:
The creator had just completed his second year for a Financial Services company he created to specialize in turning around companies that were on the verge of bankruptcy (lack of cashflow) - the business was there, just in many situations internally, issues arose and not dealt with. Left, in some cases for many years. Obviously, it's very difficult to collect large amounts of money from long standing clients when the fault for non-payment was due to in-efficiency of the actual supplier itself.
And when they are seeking at the same time buyers to shift Business to new ownership, known as an acquisition, it's kind of important for them to know their Financials.
So the creator was tasked with assisting this National £120m a year turnover company in clearing up quite a bit of mess. It took him approximately 5 weeks to figure out how to do it. Then a further 7 months before anything was actioned or implemented. Fire-fighting with senior management "that won't work", how do you know that", "you've been here two weeks", we've been here 10 years...". Then the senior manager ran off with this wonderful great solution he'd figured out. Anyway, after 5 months of not getting anywhere with it - the creator decided to go to the top floor and knock on, at that time, Fred-the-Shred's office door. He wasn't there but his right-hand man was. So, a quick 5 minute conversation took place.
A few days later a senior project manager arrived on the scene. Part of what happened is, the vehicles that were sold by car manufacturers in some cases received free tracker systems with their new car purchase. Some didn't. Then some were sold on a year or three later. The Tracker company had lost track of all this, so had invoices issued here there and everywhere. For example claiming the manufacturers owed money for installations etc. However, in many cases, not so. The actual customer had purchased separate.
And when vehicles were re-sold, the license for the tracker was to be transferred over to the new customer since it was now their car therefore their tracking system. Of course the transfers never took place correctly. And to add salt to the wound thousands of these tracker subscriptions were all priced the same, mostly on direct debit. From memory around 8500 live and active monthly accounts were investigated.
For the creator this was fairly simple to figure out.
Why is this relevant?
When the larger commercial contracts are awarded to the John Rose Group relating to Automotive - the supplier who makes contact can be confident the creator understands the operational side due to past experiences enabling the vision, so it can delivered.
Half a decade in the Industry has allowed the development of key skills to help determine suitable candidates to benefit from such. Not all storage facilities are able to cater the requirements needed.
Preference will always be given to the ones who are full members.
The creator believes in small business, SME's, the life-blood of the economy.
Towards the end of 2024:
The John Rose Group received their first National client (contract). Unfortunately the creator made the error of delivering instantly. What a mistake he made - ensuring the client could deliver their end on something quite complicated and valuable.
It almost ended his company.
2025 and onwards:
Prior to 2021; all classic car storage facilities were full for the winter period. People had waiting lists for September, and reservations were being made in the summer.
Units were closed from October-April. The issue back then and prior to those years (we have insights going back to 2011 by the way) was people left. They vacated in the summer months and booked back in for the following winter months.
January the 1st 2024; was the most busy day on record for us. Around 40 inquiries came in by both phone and email which was very strange. The prior months were much quieter than usual.
2025 and onwards; you can literally make contact with any vehicle storage facility and find space in winter. This can be in November, December, February.
The industry is changing so now vehicle storage units in many situations are struggling to fill capacity in their busy period. So, what will happen in the summer period?
Noted that a couple of the larger well established firms had profit warnings in 2024. We also found a couple who vanished, but also a rise in new operations. The competition is far greater now compared to previous years.
Who do we want to establish a Business relationship with:
We would prefer to work with new entrants. Then we can establish processes, get them set-up to receive business within 30-days usually. Get them prepared so that, if they want to, they can go and get their own business and use our knowledge to help. These are preferred as they are happy to invest the initial £6000 fee.
Get them prepared for the commercial contracts which in fairness and to be precise takes 18-months of trade with us. It's imperative we conduct testing, ensure the clients who inquire and enter the units are happy customers - this is paramount.
We find that well established companies, try things on. They want our Business but don't want us to make a single penny. They tend to be extremely crafty and extremely ungrateful when we deliver almost right away. That's not viable from our end.