Preservation of Motorcars
Advisory Services:
The Creator spent a decade working in many large corporate organisations - Commercial Finance, Dispute Resolution, and Process implementation. Providing strong vision and understanding 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.
Story - Tracker Network:
The creator had just completed his second year for a Financial Services company he created to specialise 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 were 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 inefficiency 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 passed 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 in 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 separately.
And when vehicles were resold, 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 be delivered. This includes finding alternative Automotive clients.
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 for the requirements needed. And not all are suitable Business people.
Preference will always be given to full members.
The creator believes in small businesses, SME's, the lifeblood of the economy.
You can read about our target aim for future Automotive partnerships, not just Car storage for sale on our secondary website here (scroll down).
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 of using our services. We didn't believe a few £ hundred pounds to support us was unjustified considering all the 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 that 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 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-turnaround and provided them with over 200 new clients, including those of their Supercar repair shop. If you compare this to the nearest competitor of ours, a Marketing agency, without factoring in our Advisory turnaround knowledge, we are around £25,000.00 down.
We have learned because this was our first commercial contract, and for the creator, this was his first time engaging in such. People are prepared to sabotage and steal whatever they can. This will not occur again. They are prepared to destroy members' future opportunities. Prepared to destroy the very people who help them survive.
Provides you - an Automotive company an idea of what we did for these businesses, and how they made money from us during those periods. For more stories about the Creators' knowledge of National enterprises, you can click here to our secondary website.
If you are a Supplier of Commercial work, we want you to know some of the lessons learned over the last half-decade. The creator went about doing business in a certain way. He made some mistakes, of course, but mainly wanted to know how many SME's operate, especially important since 2022.
Without knowing how some SME's operate, he wouldn't be in a position to guide them or you during a Commercial contract.
Interestingly, even a large supplier can act unethically, damage business client relations - just so they can save themselves a little bit of money. Well, so they think until issues and problems arise - taking you back up to the RBS Business turnaround knowledge above.
We have learned so much.
The company focused on learning the Industry and the Great people within.