Duncan Macpherson Email & Phone Number

Inverness, United Kingdom

Sourcing & Supplying of Quality Pre-Owned Cars. Approved Dealer for Motability, The U.K's Largest Car Fleet. Allowing us to supply Ex. Motability, one owner cars with a Full Service History, direct to the public. We're also a DVLA Personalised Number Plate Dealer, with access to DVLA Personal Number Plates. Longman Cars of Inverness are Licenced by The Highland Council as a Motor Vehicle Dealer. Duncan has over 30 Years Experience in Vehicle Sales & Management, plus Customer Care in the Retail Motor Industry, gained with the Leading Manufacturers and the Longest Established Motor Dealers in the North of Scotland.

Jubilee Park Road, Dingwall, Ross-Shire

Cosla Haymarket, Edinburgh

Inverness, United Kingdom

Highland

Portree, Isle Of Skye

Aviemore, Highland, Scotland Ph22 1St

Initially I agreed to help the owner out for six months, before being invited to make the move permanent. I developed and enhanced this family owned Ford Dealership in Aviemore, dealing with Advertising & Marketing. Resulting in Growth for Sales, Aftersales, Rapid-Fit & M.O.T. One of Scotland's Longest Established Ford Dealers, trading over 50 years. Built up excellent repeat & referral business from throughout the Highlands. Based in Scotland's Ski Capital in the Cairngorm National Park.

Inverness, United Kingdom

Set up Macpherson Marketing Service, a Marketing Consultancy Business specialising in Tourism and Visitor Attractions, Property Letting & Sales and the Retail Motor Industry. I worked on a secondment exclusively for Crannog Concept, promoting their Award Winning Restaurant, Cruise Boat and Seafood Smokehouse. Additionally I Produced and Distributed a Monthly Magazine Visitor Guide for Lochaber, "Discover What's On" with up to 32,000 copies printed monthly.

Fort William, Inverness-Shire, Scotland

Running a busy Ford Dealership with 24 hour Q8 Filling Station & Car Rental business, a staff of 20 with a £4.5M Turnover, in the Tourist Centre of Fort William. Improved the business in this new modern Car Dealership. Witnessed a doubling of sales performance year on year. Had one of the Highest Ford Sales Penetrations in U.K. peaking at 52% Local Market Share. Won the trip of a lifetime to St. Lucia with Ford, as one of Top Performing 50 Retail Dealers in U.K. Celebrated Ford's 25years as the Nation's Top Selling Brand with an Exclusive Celebration Weekend in London.

Elgin, Moray

Ran Multi Franchise Site, Peugeot, SEAT, MG Rover & LDV Vans. The largest Multi-Franchise New & Used Car Centre in Moray & West Grampian. Won Peugeot Guild of Gold Lion Award for Sales & Customer Satisfaction - A Holiday to USA. Won a trip to New York, including meal at Windows of the World Restaurant, Twin Towers, New York, with MG Rover. Exceeded All Annual Objectives for Manufacturers. Dealership won Best SEAT Sales Performance in UK, MD won trip to Australia with SEAT World Rally Team.

Inverness

Head Office, Ford Sales Manager 1998 -1999. I completed the XL2000 Ford Management Programme for Excellence in Leadership at the Ford World Headquarters in Detroit, USA. before attending the World Launch of Ford Focus in East Berlin. Prior to that I was MG Rover Franchise Manager & Chairman of Dealer Forum for North & East Scotland Dealers. Achieved Full BS5750 (ISO 9002) Accreditation. Began as a Trainee Salesman with Macrae & Dick and worked my way through the ranks to Salesman, Sales Controller, Retail Sales Manager, overall Sales Department Manager. Won various Awards and Accolades along the way, including trips to New York, Amsterdam, Paris & Portugal for Sales Achievements & Customer Satisfaction. I Followed in my late Father's footsteps into the Motor Trade, as he had been Branch Manager of Macrae & Dick in Fort William for 34 years, until his retirement in 1984. I had previously worked at the Fort William Branch for 11 years. Supervising a busy BP Filling Station at 17-19 years, before moving to Inverness to begin as a Trainee Salesman at the Group Head Office. I became the youngest Sales Manager in the North of Scotland in 1988, when aged only 22, I was invited to be Retail Sales Manager.

Education record

Automotive Management

Interests In English, History, Modern Studies, Technical Subjects, Maths, Arithmetic, Music & Art

Four former pupils were Members of Parliament and have connections with Lochaber High School. Highland Lib-Dem M.P. Danny Alexander was.