MurrayMotorsRolls-Royce

The ‘modest entrepreneur’
Although he is undoubtedly one
of Scotland’s most successful
businessmen, John Martin, the Group’s
founder and Chairman, prefers
not to seek the public limelight.
He is much more at home working with
the Group’s Directors in overseeing the
ongoing building and refurbishments
of new and existing sites, ensuring that
every site meets his exacting standards.
Success on the scale of the John Martin
Group takes persistence, much hard
work, and absolute dedication. John
Martin has worked for over forty years
to establish his company as a dominant
and respected motor trade business.
In recent years, John Martin has had
to overcome what has been both a
personal and professional tragedy with
the sudden loss of son and heir, John
Martin Junior, who was much loved
and respected by the Martin family and
all the staff of the John Martin Group.
Subsequently, John Martin Senior has
seen the company through this loss
and the subsequent restructuring,
emerging as dedicated as ever with
his employees remaining steadfastly
loyal. The John Martin Group enjoys
the benefit of some of the UK’s
most experienced motor trade staff
- 24% of employees have over
10 years service. In fact, the second
person John Martin ever employed
retired in 2007 after 41 years of service.
The principles which John Martin still
applies to his business are those he
learned in the beginning. As he puts it,
“the difference between success and
failure is in the preparation of the car
in the first place, and then in the way
the customers are handled from the
moment they come into the dealership.”
It is a tribute to John Martin’s steadfast
dedication to customer service that
customers from his original lockup
‘down the lane’, established in
the sixties, remain loyal clients of
the John Martin Group today.