Marshall Group
Founded in 1909, the Marshall Group has a turnover of £2.5bn and over 5,700 employees. Headquartered on a 900-acre site in Cambridge, Marshall has three principal arms to the business: Aerospace and Defence; Property; and Ventures.
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Founded in 1909, the Marshall Group now has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion and approximately 5,000 employees.
Headquartered on an 900 acre site in Cambridge, UK, the Group operates worldwide in the fields of aerospace, military land systems and fleet management; together with a network of over 100 franchised automotive dealerships in the UK.
The Group of Companies currently has an employment approaching 4000 working in the fields of Aerospace Engineering, Specialist Vehicle Design and manufacture, Engineering Consultancy Skills for Military Rapid Mobility Solutions and Hospitals, Motor Car Sales and Service, Truck and Refrigerated Transport Sales and Service, and Property Ownership and Management.
Marshall is very active in the training arena, and in addition to providing spare capacity to local companies, The Marshall Group provides direct sponsorship of three local schools (Teversham C of E Primary School, Coleridge Community College, and Bottisham Village College) and support to other schools. The company is also the sponsor of The Sir Arthur Marshall Institute of Aeronautics within Cambridge University Engineering Department.
Products and services
Martlet Corporate Angel
Martlet provides patient capital to hi-tech companies.
Potential investees must demonstrate their potential for rapid growth and will usually possess a strong defensible position with respect to their technology, intellectual property and products.
We are sector agnostic and focus on companies that have completed the proof of concept stage, and usually will have achieved some initial sales or grants. In all cases, there must be a strong and demonstrable commercial demand for the technology under development.
We will almost always co-invest with angels and small seed funds, and have the capacity to follow in subsequent investment rounds.
As part of an integrated strategy, Marshall has launched MarQuity, which provides larger amounts of follow-on funding for companies in its Martlet portfolio.
In addition to capital, we can offer support, experience and a network of contacts.
We are actively accepting and closing deals with promising new companies. Please check our website for a further outline of our investment criteria and to apply for funding
Marshall Fleet Solutions
Marshall Fleet Solutions (MFS) is one of the UK’s largest mobile transport refrigeration and tail lift networks and is one of the largest Thermo King dealers in Europe.
MFS provides sales and after sales support for transport refrigeration, tail lift, moving deck and ancillary equipment, backed by complete fleet management and service maintenance packages to suit all end user needs.
The company has 12 fully equipped service centres across the UK, with over 150 mobile engineers, who offer mobile service support to a vast customer base from small operators to major logistics providers and supermarket end users. MFS is unique in that it has made significant investment in a dedicated installation facility to meet the demands of supermarket home delivery vehicles providing the full bespoke solution from specification to product development through to installation and onward delivery and end user handover training.
Cambridge International Airport
Owned and operated by the Marshall Group of Companies since 1937 it is the International airport for Cambridge, Peterborough and the East of England, one of the UK’s fastest growing regions, renowned for education, technology and innovation.
Situated just minutes from the world famous City of Cambridge and 14 miles from Newmarket the historical home of horse racing and within an hour’s drive to London’s financial centres.
Offering excellent direct transport access to the major motorway network leading to many other UK’s major cities and only 45 minutes on a direct rail link into London’s Kings Cross Station.
Marshall Motor Retail and Leasing
Marshall Motor Holdings plc is an independent public company quoted on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. Marshall of Cambridge (Holdings) Limited is the majority shareholder in Marshall Motor Holdings plc.
Marshall Motor Holdings’ principal activities are the sale and repair of new and used vehicles through Marshall Motor Group and the leasing of vehicles through Marshall Leasing. They include a total of 103 franchises covering 24 brands across 25 counties in England, as well as five trade parts specialists, seven used car centres, four standalone body shops, and one PDI centre. Following the acquisition of Ridgeway, Marshall Motor Holdings now has a turnover of £2bn per annum and 4,000 colleagues, selling over 100,000 new and used vehicles and over 1,000,000 service and repair hours per annum. Marshall Motor Holdings plc aims to be the UK’s premier automotive retail and leasing group as recognised by its colleagues, customers, business partners and shareholders.
Marshall Aerospace and Defence
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group is the UK’s largest independent aerospace and defence company and is respected and trusted worldwide for its expertise in civil, military and commercial aircraft and defence solutions.
It specialises in the conversion, modification, maintenance and support of aircraft and defence solutions in the air, on land and at sea. Its capabilities include engineering design, manufacture, test, certification, maintenance and support and the provision of personnel, training and advice. With over 80 years of aviation experience, the business has completed over 1,500 modifications in more than 35 countries.
Headquartered at our airport in Cambridge, UK and with offices around the globe, it has a worldwide customer base and continues to support major platform OEMs such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, BAE Systems, Beechcraft, Airbus and Embraer, as well as airlines, MRO organisations and nine Air Forces.
It employs over 2,000 people and has an annual turnover exceeding £320m.
Marshall Group Properties
Marshall Group Properties owns and is responsible for 364 hectares (approx. 900 acres) of land, which includes the Cambridge Airport site, as well as land holdings adjacent to the airport. The team manages over 1.5m sq ft of commercial and industrial buildings and adopts sustainable farming practices on our arable land holdings.
Through our major development projects – to the north of the airport (Wing) and on land to the north of Cherry Hinton – we are working to bring forward around 2,500 new homes, two primary schools, a secondary school, local centres and other infrastructure to transform the east side of Cambridge.
