How Private Equity Is Looking at the Tire Industry in 2025

With an uncertain economy, more tariffs and the unpredictability of President Donald Trump, are private equity groups still as interested in tire dealerships as they have been in recent years?
May 1, 2025
MTD
Cole Strandberg, MTD’s Mergers and Acquisitions columnist and a managing director at Focus Investment Banking, says “It’s a great time to be a tire dealer right now.”
Cole Strandberg, MTD’s Mergers and Acquisitions columnist and a managing director at Focus Investment Banking, says “It’s a great time to be a tire dealer right now.”

With an uncertain economy, more tariffs and the unpredictability of President Donald Trump, are private equity groups still as interested in tire dealerships as they have been in recent years? MTD’s Mergers & Acquisitions Columnist Cole Strandberg weighs in on the current state of the market in 2025. He says private equity groups are seeking creative ways to join the tire industry.

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After more than a dozen years working as a newspaper reporter in Kansas, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, Joy Kopcha joined Modern Tire Dealer as senior editor in 2014. She has covered murder trials, a prison riot and more city council, county commission, and school board meetings than she cares to remember.

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