Who owns JCT600 now?
After pulling through with healthy profits in 2020, JCT600 is on track for a record year as it celebrates its 75th year in business. It is owned and managed by the Tordoff family who have steered it to success over its many years of trading. JCT600 is a Yorkshire-based business founded in 1946. Starting out as ‘Brooklands Garage’ on Sticker Lane, Bradford, JCT600 now has over 2,000 colleagues and remains to this day a proud family-run business with three generations of the Tordoff family involved.The JCT600 Ltd management team includes Richard Hargraves (Managing Director), James Knowles (Head Of Sales), and Chrissy Broughton (Group Wellbeing Manager).
How many people are employed by JCT600?
With a 75+ year history and 4 generations later, JCT600 now employs over 2000 employees in the north of England. JCT600 represents 17 of the world’s most iconic brands at more than 50 locations throughout Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and the North East, and yet its ambition remains the same as ever – to be the best, not necessarily the biggest.
What does JCT600 stand for?
Motorsport is a big part of our history, and it even had a hand in the naming of JCT600. The company takes its name from our founder, Jack Tordoff, and his own personalised number plate from the Porsche Carrera that he drove when winning the prestigious Circuit of Ireland Rally in 1973. Jack Tordoff was a successful rally driver in the 1960s and 1970s and winner of the Circuit of Ireland Rally in 1973. Tordoff developed the business over the next 70-plus years, founding JCT600, before his son and current chief executive officer, John Tordoff, took over in 2002.At this time the business still had its original name of Tordoff Motors, however, one year later Jack bought himself a Mercedes 600 with the registration number in his initials, Jack Crossley Tordoff (JCT) and the number 600 for the model of Mercedes and the new company name was born and a new era of success.Motorsport is a big part of our history, and it even had a hand in the naming of JCT600. The company takes its name from our founder, Jack Tordoff, and his own personalised number plate from the Porsche Carrera that he drove when winning the prestigious Circuit of Ireland Rally in 1973.