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?
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.
Joy Kopcha joined Modern Tire Dealer and Auto Service Professional as senior editor in 2014 after working as a newspaper reporter for a dozen years in Kansas, Indiana and Pennsylvania. She was named managing editor of MTD and ASP in 2022, and took on that same role with Motor Age in 2024.
She is an award-winning journalist, including in 2023 when she was named a Jesse H. Neal Awards Finalist.
