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Hot 100 2014 – 52: Park Lane

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53: MacDonald Humfrey

Park Lane (UK)?

Latest turnover: 29,418,000
Three-year compound growth rate (%): 40.41
Latest EBITDA: 1,259,864

Park Lane, based in Hampshire, sells luxury, used cars with continuously changing stock.

The company’s service department specialises in the maintenance and repair of Saburu and Alfa Romeo vehicles, including the supply and fitting of HID/Xenon headlamp conversion kits.

They also export cars to all right-hand-drive countries, such as India, Australia and South Africa. Park Lane is marketed as a distributor specialising in ‘tax free’ cars . Their main export markets include Singapore and Malaysia.

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