By Jonathan Wilke, Partner, DHG Dealerships The automotive retail industry is one of the largest in the United States where the majority of the entities are privately-held or family-owned. M... Read more
Though he may be one of the world’s most successful investors, Warren Buffett doesn’t have any experience selling cars. So why did the manufacturers approve his acquisition of Van Tuyl? One... Read more
By Alysha Webb, Editor and Publisher The 2014 letter to shareholders from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway shows that Buffett is not deaf to industry talk about the ability of a non-autom... Read more
By Mark Johnson, President, MD Johnson, Inc. The entry of Berkshire Hathaway into the automotive buy sell world has shone a bright light on the dealership world and ignited a frenzy of specu... Read more
The number of dealerships in the U.S. rose by only 0.6 percent in 2014 to 17,953 rooftops, according to Urban Science’s just-released Automotive Franchise Activity Report. Just because new d... Read more
In 2014, Bass Sox Mercer closed 27 buy sell deals, an historical high for the law firm. As 2015 begins, the firm has 14 deals in its deal pipeline, partner Robert Bass told Automotive Buy Se... Read more
