Huge Model Tire & Service has entered right into a definitive settlement to accumulate Belle Tire in a mixture that may create one of many largest impartial tire and automotive service platforms within the U.S.
The businesses introduced the settlement July 16. Monetary phrases weren’t disclosed. The transaction stays topic to customary closing situations and is predicted to shut in the course of the third quarter of 2026.
The acquisition will improve Huge Model’s annual income to greater than $1.5 billion and develop its footprint to over 530 areas nationwide. Belle Tire operates greater than 180 shops throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Based in Detroit in 1922, Belle Tire presents tires, wheels and automotive upkeep and restore companies. The corporate has developed a very sturdy presence throughout the Midwest throughout its greater than 100 years in enterprise.
“Belle Tire has constructed an distinctive enterprise centered on its folks, its prospects and the communities it serves,” Huge Model CEO Joe Buscaglia stated within the announcement. “We now have great respect for the Belle Tire workforce and the tradition they’ve created over the previous century.”
Belle Tire President Don Barnes III stated the businesses share a people-first working philosophy that ought to permit Belle Tire to proceed investing in its staff, prospects and communities.
Moorpark, CA-based Huge Model was based in 1969 and supplies tires and automobile upkeep companies. Its choices embrace brakes, alignments, oil modifications, batteries and different automotive restore companies.
The corporate has expanded quickly since partnering with non-public fairness agency Percheron Capital in 2021, combining natural progress with a high-volume acquisition technique. Huge Model stated its income elevated greater than tenfold and profitability grew greater than fifteenfold in the course of the first 4 years of its partnership with Percheron.
Percheron accomplished a $1.63 billion recapitalization of Huge Model in October 2025 by a continuation automobile designed to finance the corporate’s subsequent section of growth. On the time, Huge Model stated it finally deliberate to develop to 1,000 service facilities.
Evercore served as Huge Model’s unique monetary advisor on the Belle Tire transaction, whereas Jefferies suggested Belle Tire.
MDM Evaluation
Belle Tire represents a large regional platform somewhat than one other small retailer add-on for Huge Model. The deal provides the California-based consolidator speedy density in 4 Midwest states and combines two of the nation’s largest impartial tire dealerships. It additionally demonstrates how non-public equity-backed platforms are accelerating consolidation in a fragmented automotive aftermarket, the place geographic scale can enhance buying leverage, advertising and marketing effectivity, expertise funding and repair capability. Preserving Belle Tire’s established model and native buyer loyalty will probably be central to realizing these benefits.
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