JM Family Enterprises began when Jim Moran spent his $360 in savings on a Sinclair gas station in 1939. This gas station soon became the largest volume gas station in Chicago.
Jim Moran opened Courtesy Motors, a Hudson dealership, in Chicago in 1948. Later, in the 1950’s, Moran was one of the first dealers to advertise cars on television.
In 1961 Jim Moran was featured on the cover of Time magazine’s “Heydey of the Haggle: The Buyer’s Market in Cars.”
In 1968 Moran signed an agreement to make JM Family Enterprises the exclusive distributor of Toyotas in the southeastern United States.
Today JM Family Enterprises is a diversified automotive corporation with its principal business in vehicle distribution and processing, financial services, finance, insurance products, retail sales, marketing, consulting, and dealer technology products and services.
JM Family is a “Fortune 100 Best” company, has 3,800 employees throughout North America, is #27 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies, and had $11.5 billion in revenue in 2012.
JM Family EnterprisesJM Family Enterprises began when Jim Moran spent his $360 in savings on a Sinclair gas station in 1939. This gas station soon became the largest volume gas station in Chicago.
Jim Moran opened Courtesy Motors, a Hudson dealership, in Chicago in 1948. Later, in the 1950’s, Moran was one of the first dealers to advertise cars on television.
In 1961 Jim Moran was featured on the cover of Time magazine’s “Heydey of the Haggle: The Buyer’s Market in Cars.”
History
In 1968 Moran signed an agreement to make JM Family Enterprises the exclusive distributor of Toyotas in the southeastern United States.
Today JM Family Enterprises is a diversified automotive corporation with its principal business in vehicle distribution and processing, financial services, finance, insurance products, retail sales, marketing, consulting, and dealer technology products and services.
JM Family is a “Fortune 100 Best” company, has 3,800 employees throughout North America, is #27 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies, and had $11.5 billion in revenue in 2012.
