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Marshall has sold its Volkswagen showroom in Tunbridge Wells, the victim of a takeover through Constellation Automotive Group.
The site in Dowding Way has been bought by the JCB Group and will now be called JCB Volkswagen Tunbridge Wells.
It follows Marshall losing all its Toyota and Lexus sites in July, after we exclusively revealed at the beginning of the year that Constellation had apparently forced Marshall to put them up for sale.
Also in the summer, customers of Marshall’s Welwyn Garden City Volvo dealer were told via email that from July 1 its new car sales would cease, with it planning to continue as a used car site and official Volvo repair centre.
Constellation took Marshall public after buying it last year in a £325 million buyback, announced in November 2021.
Late last month we told how a leaked memo revealed that senior managers Jamie Crowther and Jon Head had to leave Marshall Motor Group.
Former CEO Daksh Gupta left the company in May 2022, CFO Richard Blumberger in December, and the organization’s lawyer Stephen Jones in March of this year.
Chief Human Resources Officer Joanne Moxon resigned as director on June 30. A review by Companies House indicated that he had “resigned”.
Commenting on the acquisition of the VW site, Jonathan Bischoff, owner and CEO of JCB Group, said: “We look forward to welcoming Volkswagen Tunbridge Wells to the JCB Group family.
‘Our customer-first ethos will hopefully please existing and future customers of the branch and we hope the business will build from strength to strength offering our customers the best choice locally.
“We appreciate the contribution and enthusiasm of us to be the most productive in the business. We look forward to being a provider in this beautiful part of Kent County.
The dealer reached out to Constellation for comment.
Pictured at top via Google Street View in September 2023 is the Marshall VW site in Tunbridge Wells that is now owned by the JCB Group
John has been with Car Dealer since 2013 after spending 25 years at the newspaper as a journalist and then Deputy Deputy Editor/Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Regional and National Titles. John is an Assistant Editor of Car Dealer’s Editorial Department and social media manager.
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