AutoNation
NEW YORK – August 23, 2024 – The Dave Cantin Group (DCG), a leading advisor to retail automotive groups and their owners, announces Stivers Automotive’s successful purchase of a Ford dealership in Union City, Georgia, from AutoNation.
“Stivers Automotive works with DCG because of the experience and number of transactions we’ve successfully advised on in the Southeast,” said DCG President and CEO Dave Cantin. “The strength of our team and our knowledge of the market enabled us to connect our client with this strategic acquisition.”
Stivers Automotive is a retail automotive group with dealerships in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia and South Carolina. Brothers Eddie and John Stivers of St. Louis, Missouri, own the dealership group. The Stivers brothers are third-generation auto dealers whose family has been in the automobile business since 1927.
AutoNation is one of the largest automotive retailers in the United States. With a nationwide network of dealerships, they offer a wide variety of new and used vehicles, customer financing, parts, and maintenance and repair services.
“I want to thank the team at DCG for helping put this deal together,” Stivers Automotive Owner and Dealer Principal Eddie Stivers said. “The support and communication with DCG’s team of experts made the transaction go smoothly, and I look forward to working with DCG on future acquisitions.”
Dave Cantin and DCG Managing Directors Joe Beaver and Mike Lacey managed the transaction for Dave Cantin Group.
I want to thank the team at DCG for helping putting this deal together. The support and communication with Joe Beaver made the transaction go smoothly and I look forward to working with DCG in future acquisitions.
Eddie Stivers
Owner/Dealer Principal, Stivers Automotive
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.
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