Sam Luscombe takes MD seat at Luscombe Motors as Robin steps again

Luscombe managing director Robin Luscombe is to step again from the day-to-day enterprise operations, handing the reins to son Sam Luscombe.

Robin Luscombe, who turns 64 in August has spent 47 years within the motor business and can now tackle the function of chairman.

Stepping up from his earlier function as gross sales director, Sam Luscombe initially joined the a number of AM Award-winning automotive supplier as innovation supervisor, charged with overhauling its digital providing utilizing his expertise at Google and in a tech start-up.

5 years in the past, he took on the problem of launching the Luscombe MG franchise from scratch. Below his management, it has grown to change into the biggest single-site MG dealership within the UK, delivering over 7,000 new MGs.

Conscious of the challenges related to second era companies, Sam Luscombe attributes a number of the success to his earned experiences exterior of the business to deliver contemporary pondering and a brand new perspective.

Robin Luscombe commented: “Sam has earned the respect of our group for what he does, not who he’s. With the energy of our group and Sam’s vitality and imaginative and prescient, the long run seems very shiny.”

Luscombe Motors at present represents the Suzuki and MG manufacturers, in addition to working an aftersales franchise for Mitsubishi. Over the previous 12 months, the enterprise reviews that it achieved report new and used automotive gross sales, alongside a big enhance in aftersales income.

Sam Luscombe mentioned: “I’m lucky to imagine a place with the enterprise in such impolite well being following 15 years of sustainable progress. Our current give attention to digital functionality and progressive strategy to alternatively fuelled automobiles stands us in good stead to capitalise on future alternatives in a altering business.”

Robin Luscombe arrange the enterprise in 2010, shopping for Bowetts Suzuki in Leeds initially after which Bowetts Mitsubishi, after leaving Colin Appleyard Group, the place he had been working a few of its bike dealerships.