JM Family Enterprises
Encyclopedia
JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (JM Family) is a diversified automotive company ranked by Forbes
as the 30th-largest privately held company in the U.S. It is also consistently ranked by FORTUNE
as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, and by Computerworld magazine as 100 Best Places to Work in IT. Headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Fla., the company has major business operations in Jacksonville and Margate, Fla.; Commerce and Alpharetta, Ga.; Mobile, Ala.; and St. Louis, Mo.
They have major activity centers in Deerfield Beach
, Margate
& Jacksonville, Florida
; Mobile, Alabama
; Alpharetta
& Commerce, Georgia
; Beverly, Massachusetts
; St. Louis, Missouri
; and Solon, Ohio
.
Forbes
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as the 30th-largest privately held company in the U.S. It is also consistently ranked by FORTUNE
Fortune (magazine)
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as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, and by Computerworld magazine as 100 Best Places to Work in IT. Headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Fla., the company has major business operations in Jacksonville and Margate, Fla.; Commerce and Alpharetta, Ga.; Mobile, Ala.; and St. Louis, Mo.
Origins
JM Family was founded by automotive legend James M. (Jim) Moran. The company grew from Southeast Toyota Distributors, which was established in 1968 to distribute Toyota vehicles to independent dealers in the five southeastern states. Today, JM Family is one of the most respected automotive-related businesses in the U.S. with approximately 3,800 associates. Major subsidiaries include:- JM&A Group - one of the largest independent providers of finance and insurance (F&I) products in the automotive industry
- JM Lexus - the largest volume retail LexusLexusis the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has...
dealership in the world. - Southeast Toyota DistributorsSoutheast Toyota Distributors LLCSoutheast Toyota Distributors, LLC is the world’s largest franchised distributor of Toyota vehicles. The 172 dealers in the five states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina & South Carolina account for 20% of Toyota sales in the United States...
- the world’s largest independent distributor of Toyota and Scion vehicles, parts and accessories - World Omni Financial Corp. - an automotive financial services company
They have major activity centers in Deerfield Beach
Deerfield Beach, Florida
Deerfield Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, USA. The city is named for the numerous deer that once roamed the area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 75,018...
, Margate
Margate, Florida
Margate is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 53,284. It is part of the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–Pompano Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is home to 5,564,635 people.-Geography:...
& Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
; Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
; Alpharetta
Alpharetta, Georgia
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 34,854 people, 13,911 households, and 8,916 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,631.6 people per square mile . There were 14,670 housing units at an average density of 686.7 per square mile...
& Commerce, Georgia
Commerce, Georgia
Commerce is a city in Jackson County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 6,544.-Geography:Commerce is located at ....
; Beverly, Massachusetts
Beverly, Massachusetts
Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,343 on , which differs by no more than several hundred from the 39,862 obtained in the 2000 census. A resort, residential and manufacturing community on the North Shore, Beverly includes Beverly Farms and Prides...
; St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
; and Solon, Ohio
Solon, Ohio
Solon is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and is an affluent suburb of Cleveland in the Northeast Ohio Region, the 14th largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 23,348...
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