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Collision Partners Is Buying Great Body Shops - and Leaving the Names on the Door
Most roll-ups buy a reputation and replace it with a logo. Collision Partners is betting that the name above the garage door - and the craft behind it - is the asset worth keeping.
The Body Shop Roll-Up Betting Everything on Doing It the Carmaker's Way
Jerod Guerin left a decade at Service King to build Quality Collision Group - 100-plus OEM-certified collision centers across 13 states, assembled shop by shop, with new manufacturer parts and no shortcuts.
OEC Turned the Parts Counter Into Infrastructure
Born to replace phone-and-fax parts orders, OEC now sits between the companies that build vehicles and the people who put them back on the road - turning scattered inventory, repair procedures and paperwork into one connected workflow.
Atlanta's Biggest Family Car Business Started on a Prison Farm
Jim Ellis turned one Chamblee Volkswagen store into 22 dealerships and 17 brands - and built a half-billion-dollar business on a handshake rule he called the Jim Ellis Promise.
The Company Behind Your Oil Change Is Quietly Building Car Care's Operating System
Driven Brands has turned a scattered chore - keeping a car alive - into a portfolio of familiar local shops backed by one shared machine. Its next chapter depends on making that machine simpler, faster and more disciplined.
The Body Shop That Became a 650-Location Repair Machine
A single Illinois body shop grew into the country’s third-largest collision-repair operator. Its real product is not fresh paint - it is trust, coordination and the ability to make a complicated car whole again.
The Gulf Coast Chain That Sells 15 Badges Under One Name
One Toyota store in Bradenton became 20-plus rooftops and 15 badges. Here is how a Florida family kept buying dealerships while national groups consolidated the rest.
Group 1 Automotive
Group 1 Automotive built a $22.6 billion business by treating the dealership as the beginning of a relationship, not the end of a sale. Its real engine sits behind the showroom door: service bays, parts counters, finance desks and a digital platform designed to keep drivers in the network.
Solera Holdings, LLC.
Solera sits behind the moments when a car is claimed, repaired, sold, tracked, or returned to the road. Its advantage is not one famous app, but a deep reservoir of vehicle data wired into the daily work of insurers, shops, dealers, and fleets.
Kinetic
Kinetic is a Southern California startup turning the messy, hours-long job of recalibrating modern vehicle sensors into a 15-minute, robot-run procedure. Through its network of Kinetic Hubs and its in-house AI and robotic arms, it services EVs, ADAS-equipped cars, and eventually robotaxis on behalf of collision shops, dealerships, fleets, and insurers.