Notes from the meeting room: Daksh Gupta, Marshall Motors Group CEO

Meeting chaired by: Daksh Gupta, Marshall Motors Group CEO

Why was the meeting called and who was in attendance?

Richard Blumberger CFO and key members of financial team, Devon and Mark were there and we were preparing for the 2019 results presentation which was due to be released 7am on 10 March.

What was top of the agenda?

Ensuring that we had high quality materials produced to share with key stakeholders, shareholders, customers and colleagues on how the business has done in 2019 from a financial and strategic perspective.

For example, we bought 20 business in 2019 for a combined £31.6m so how are we going to get those key messages across.

We also wanted to talk about our high colleague engagement – we’ve been named a great place to work for the last 10 years. We were picking out what the key themes are on how the business has performed over the last 12 months.

What was decided as a result of the meeting?

 The key actions all around were how we were going to present the numbers, make it transparent for key stakeholders, how we were going to present accounts and how we were going to present the regulatory release to the stock exchange.

 Any other business?

We also discussed timelines, rehearsals for the presentations, scripting and the videoing of the key messages from the CFO and CEO.

When is the next meeting, and what is it about?

We have a tight timeline because it is a lot of work in a short period of time. We have six to seven weeks to produce 160 pages in the report and it has to be of the highest standard and integrity.

We would have a debrief afterwards, but once we have caught up on sleep.

Company: Marshall Motors Group

Head office location: Our head office is in Cambridge but this meeting was in Milton Keynes

Principal business: Automotive retailing

Number of employees: 4,600