Industry Automotive Products Motor Oil, Tyres Founder Bob Jane Type of business Private | Area served worldwide Headquarters Melbourne Founded 1965 | |
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Bob Jane opened the first Bob Jane T-Marts store in Melbourne in 1965. The company remains an independent, family-owned business to this day; Bob's son, Rodney Jane, is the current CEO. In 2011 82-year-old Jane resigned as chairman of T-Marts citing difficulties in the relationship with his son Rodney.
From 2002 to 2004, Bob Jane T-Marts held the naming rights sponsorship for the Bathurst 1000, the race Jane dominated early in his career. The company also held the naming rights to the former Bob Jane Stadium, home of South Melbourne FC.
Bob Jane T-Marts is the only major tyre retailer in Australia who do not sell retread tyres. Bob Jane's personal reason for this is that his second eldest daughter Georgina had died in a car accident in 1991 due to a retreaded tyre blowing out.