Canadian retailer Foundation Automotive enters Tennessee with purchase of four dealerships

Rising Canadian retailer Basis Automotive Corp. has entered a new point out and added a new manufacturer, Nissan, to its portfolio with its most up-to-date acquisition of dealerships.

Foundation Automotive acquired Jones Buick-GMC, Jones Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram and Jones Nissan in Savannah, Tenn., and Jones Chevrolet Humboldt in Humboldt, Tenn., from Jones Motor Co. on Friday, according to Andy Gill, CEO of Gill Automotive Group, a offer-side company in St. Augustine, Fla., who represented the sellers in the offer.

Foundation is retaining the dealership names.

Savannah is east of Memphis and just north of the Mississippi and Alabama borders. Humboldt is northwest of Savannah.

Jones Motor Co., owned by brothers Clark Jones and Charlie Jones as effectively as Chad Jones, Clark’s son, continue to owns Jones Ford in Savannah, which was not included in the sale to Basis, Gill mentioned.

Basis claimed Chad Jones “will continue on to get the job done with Basis Automotive as an govt less than the growth of the utilised-car or truck platform” for every single of the group’s dealerships.

“The utilised-automobile platform they have crafted at Jones Motor Co. is 2nd-to-none, and we are privileged to have Chad Jones on board to help expand it to all of our outlets,” Basis CEO Kevin Kutschinski claimed in a statement.

The Canadian team, which acquired two retailers and sold one particular in 2021, has been in progress method this calendar year.

In February, Foundation bought five franchised dealerships, moreover a applied-vehicle dealership and two RV dealerships in Wichita Falls, Texas. And in March, the team acquired a Stellantis dealership south of Houston.

Basis, of Calgary, Alberta, has a U.S. foundation in Houston. In addition to Tennessee and Texas, the team has dealerships in Colorado and North Dakota, as nicely as a few in Canada.