Collaboration is the key to Jardine's success, says commercial director Jason Cranswick

Jason Cranswick, commercial director at Jardine Motors Group, has finished showing me around the group’s new flagship Jaguar Land Rover dealership at Milton Keynes – it’s a multi-million pound blueprint for what JLR expects of the ‘Arch’-style centres. Next door is its Audi showroom, an £8 million investment completed in 2014.

Across England are more examples of considerable investment and pride in its motor retail operations. Its next is an £8m Audi site at Oldham, due to open this summer, followed by its fourth Porsche centre, at Sidcup, before the end of the year.

“One thing we’re very fortunate with is that our shareholder takes a very long-term view on the industry. We’ve done the usual examination of what’s the future of retailing, what will we need, and we’re convinced that there’s absolutely a place for facilities such as this. You’re probably going to have fewer locations, fewer partners and more impressive facilities.”