John Hughes Group was founded in 1969 and its string of dealerships in Victoria Park is said to be Australia's biggest single car-retailing site.
The company has diversified into many peripheral areas in the automotive industry, it has its own insurance company, a finance company, a finance broking operation, underwrites its own extended warranties, is in the tyre and battery business provides its own roadside assistance, has twelve mobile service vans, and has its own fleet of trucks to transport vehicles to and from the varied locations.