Japanese Western Motor Group is gearing as much as develop its automotive gross sales quantity with an funding into an enormous workshop and PDI centre.
It has simply secured planning permission to transform a former paint manufacturing constructing in Dunfermline right into a car preparation manufacturing facility.
The 33,000sq ft property was beforehand occupied since 2000 by the UK’s oldest paint manufacturing agency, Craig & Rose, but it surely closed the power in 2024 amid plans to maneuver manufacturing to France.
The constructing is located to the rear of Japanese Western’s present Toyota, Nissan and Honda dealerships at Halbeath, and the PDI centre can have easy accessibility to the M90 motorway for car actions.
Japanese Holdings group managing director Keith Duncan mentioned it’s a “large house, needed to be bought” and added that the PDI centre could be “strategically essential given what’s coming”.
The AM100 group has expanded considerably in Scotland within the final 10 years, doubling its annual turnover from the £464 million revenues it recorded in 2014.
In 2017 it took over Grassicks BMW and Mini at Perth and Pheonix Honda at Sterling, then in 2018 it acquired Barnett Motor Group, including Volkswagen and Mazda companies.
That was adopted by its acquisition of Alex F Noble Nissan at Straiton.
In 2022 it opened a VW Industrial Autos dealership at Newbridge, Edinburgh, and a brand new Mercedes-Benz dealership at Fife, and a yr later it gained the Toyota franchises for Falkirk, Stirling, Perth and Dundee.
