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Just Car Clinics - Small but ambitious body shop chain

January 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • JCR
  • Price:
  • 22p
After keeping their heads down for the past couple of years, management at Just Car Clinics, 21p, have become  slightly more confident on prospects. The company which operates an independent chain of branded accident repair centres has been around a long time, since 1991 in fact when it was established as a division of Dixon Motors. When Dixon Motors was acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland in 2002, management effectively orchestrated a buyout of the centres by reversing the business into Bikenet. At the time, the deal valued Just Car at just £3.5m (£1.5m upfront plus £2m goodwill payable in tranches between 2003-4),  all this being funded by debt.But 2003, the first year after the acquisition, pro ...

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