Bradford-head quartered car retailer,?JCT600, has again seen revenues break the billion pound mark with sales rising by 12% to 1.145 billion in the year to 31 December 2015 for the reason that family business celebrates its 70th anniversary.
Pre-tax profit rose marginally in 2015 to 18.61 million (2014: 18.56 million) with all the group continuing to perform well despite pressure on margins in an exceedingly competitive market.
New vehicle sales one more time outperformed the marketplace, rising by 10% weighed against the average of any 6% increase to your brands represented by JCT600.? Aftersales also saw growth with turnover rising by 12% and gross profit by 13%.
The group continues to buy further boosting the customer experience, implementing new systems and increasing staff numbers towards a 2,300 strong team. In addition, it made an 18.3 million acquisition of two Mercedes Benz dealerships in Harrogate and York in keeping with its steps involved in to be a niche regional operation.
In July 2015, JCT600 launched the latest fully responsive web platform containing generated a 300% increase in website visitors to the web site from mobile devices as well as a 64% boost in leads.
“It continues to be another year of strong growth while we have continued with these focus of striving being the best car retailer as opposed to the biggest,” said Leader John Tordoff.? “The purchase of another two Mercedes Benz dealerships in prime North Yorkshire locations has further enhanced our geographic spread and our innovative web offering is making it easier for customers to interact with around from whatever browsing device they choose.”
Nigel Shaw, Group Finance Director at JCT600, added: “The economic outlook has improved greatly over the last three years or so and, when the Brexit debate is behind us, we expect business and consumer confidence to remain buoyant moving forward.? With our long heritage and ideal reputation, JCT600 is well placed to go on to look at full advantage of these favourable conditions and that we wish to view a amount of sustained growth.”