Automotive News: Brian Gordon on the Buy-Sell Market in 2025 and Jump IQ
Brian Gordon, Chief Business & Strategy Officer at Dave Cantin Group (DCG), joined Jamie Butters of Automotive News at NADA to discuss the 2025 buy-sell market and DCG’s proprietary AI software, Jump IQ.
In this episode, Brian Gordon discusses the opportunities ahead for dealerships in 2025. “You’re going to see a lot of buying, but also a lot of strategic selling,” he explains. This shift creates opportunities for smaller dealership owners to acquire valuable assets from larger groups.
Jamie Butters also asks Brian about DCG’s proprietary AI platform, Jump IQ. “We have almost complete profiles of all 18,000 dealerships in the United States, all mapped to their dealer groups. With an interface that allows us to see who they are and where they are. That type of visibility, from an M&A perspective, no one has ever really seen it before.”
More on Jump IQ – DCG’s proprietary software ingests over 250 million data points – and processes billions of data points – to create dynamic, real-time profiles of all 18,000+ U.S. franchise dealerships. The AI-powered software then uses that data to accurately and reliably establish financial information, performance data and an overall valuation for each franchise dealership. Additionally, it includes a tool to compare any subset of dealerships to one another: any brand, any geography, in real time.
Listen to the Full Podcast on Automotive News
About Dave Cantin Group
Dave Cantin Group is a leading automotive M&A advisory firm specializing in acquisitions, divestitures, platform management, business evaluations, and other corporate development services. The new retail reality requires automotive dealers to seek DCG’s collective best thinking, deep experience and extensive industry relationships to effectively leverage M&A as a core business strategy.
Clients choose DCG because we are a trusted advisor focusing on long-term relationships, investing in data and research, and engaging our entire team on every client project. Clients benefit from our industry-leading market intelligence – our Market Outlook Report – and JumpIQ, our proprietary AI-enabled platform delivering unprecedented visibility into automotive retail.
Our nonprofit initiative, DCG Giving, funds child and adolescent cancer research and treatment across the United States and supports other charitable causes important to the automotive retail community. To learn more, visit davecantingroup.com.
