Marshall Motor Group has acquired Ipswich Jaguar from Lookers.

Marshall already represents Jaguar in Cambridge and Peterborough and the addition of Ipswich gives the group the largest contiguous territory for Jaguar in the UK.

The Ipswich Jaguar business will continue to operate from its existing site in the town centre and all of the former Lookers staff have transferred to Marshall.

National ambtions
"This is the fifth new business that we have added this year and is in line with our stated intention to expand our group nationally, deliberately moving beyond our historical boundaries with scalable businesses which offer us further opportunity for growth," said chief executive, Daksh Gupta.

"We have represented Jaguar for over 35 years and have an excellent relationship with them. We are very grateful to Jaguar for their support in this acquisition. With Ipswich, we now cover the whole of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire with the nearest non-Marshall Jaguar dealerships over 40 miles away," he said.

Jaguar partnership
Geoff Cousins, managing director of Jaguar UK said: "The Jaguar brand is increasingly being recognised for its obsessive attention to delivering the highest quality product and exceptional customer service. This extends to our dealer partners and I am delighted that Marshalls have increased its partnership with Jaguar."

Marshall is already established in Ipswich having added the Kia franchise to its Vauxhall and Chevrolet businesses at Ransome Europark earlier this month.