Preservation of Motorcars
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.
Example units; Available space Locations... Click Here. www.bestcarstoragelondon.co.uk
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 his past experiences enabling the vision, so it can delivered.
Half a decade in the Vehicle Storage Industry has allowed the development of key skills to help determine suitable companies to benefit from such. Not all storage facilities are able to cater the requirements needed. And not all are suitable Business people.
Preference will always be given to 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 supplier could deliver their end on something quite complicated and valuable.
It almost ended his company.
It was a learning curve as the supplier cheated us, whilst cheating the recommended unit too (we stepped in to query their unethical business). We lost a long-term standing storage client for advising that he'd taken cars in without the correct paperwork where the supplier placed liability onto his property. This is where our integrity comes in, because we could have just ignored the findings and we'd be £30,000.00 up at the date of writing. The unit was upset that we charged them £675 for the advice and stopped paying us.
They make approximately £50000.00 a year from us now by the way including this 1-2 year Commercial deal. Not bad for 18 months in using our services. We didn't believe a few £ hundred to support us was unjustified considering all things we'd done for them, and the issues the supplier caused us financially. We stuck up for them, protected their property, fought in their corner - and they stopped our service.
We advised the supplier they acted unethically and terminated services.
The first unit introduced to the supplier failed compliance due to a number of reasons and rejected our process check as they didn't want to pay us anything extra for developing them the business (small investigation - commissions check/process improvement needed). A couple of thousand plus a simple quality check . Upon completion, they'd get the OK to receive an £80k piece of Business from us. As it turned out it would appear they tried to steal the business behind our back anyhow.
We don't know to this day if the supplier still went with them?
One company was a start-up and we assisted them for 18 months and filled them to capacity. We are about £11000.00 down if you were to compare our fees charged with the nearest competitor, a Marketing agency (website/paid advertising). The other company was a client of 3.5 years. We did a mini-turn-around and provided them over 200 new clients including that of their Supercar repair shop. If you compare this to the nearest competitor of ours, a Marketing agency - without factoring in our Advisory turn-around knowledge - we are around £25,000.00 down.
Gives you an idea too on what we actually did make these Businesses during those periods. For more stories about the Creators knowledge of National enterprises you can click here to our secondary website.
We have learned because this was our first commercial contract, and for the creator this was his first time of engagement in such. People are prepared to sabotage and steal whatever they can. This will not occur again. They are prepared to destroy member future opportunities. Prepared to destroy the very people who help them survive.
Neither of these storage companies were full members - therefore must pay a consultancy fee based on value.
Full members receive inclusive consultancy as part of the deal.
The consultancy by the way can propel an SME to the stage where the Business owner can sit-back with less day to day running around. More efficient due to our ability to implement process.
Who do we want to establish a Business relationship with:
Established companies that have more than 60 spaces available, or have alternative avenues to make income such as vehicle repairs or recovery.
New entrants are suitable if they have 80+ spaces.
We can take on-board and help smaller outfits with less than 30 spaces but they would be required to pay-in some money, a similar requested fee.