Tom Farmer bought & sold Kwikfit many times over 30/40 years.
Tyre company owned sites for sale, bought the lot - closed some down & sold the land etc - on one occasion he paid just under £200m for 150 sites - sold of the land & building of redundant sites for more money & kept the 70/80 sites, that cost him nothing, to expand coverage.
His customer ethics were dodgy (leaky Shock absorbers, holes in exhaust, brake disks & pads)BUT he could wheel & deal - Ford bought Kwikfit 30 years ago & he bought it back for less.
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