McGovern Automotive Group buys Stellantis dealership, its fifth acquisition of 2022

The flurry of acquisitions this 12 months follows McGovern Automotive final Oct obtaining a uncommon Ferrari-Maserati dealership, getting Ferrari-Maserati Long Island in Plainview, N.Y., from Encounter Car Team.

With all its growth, McGovern said his group is on observe to make $1.8 billion in once-a-year income for 2022 and to promote more than 27,000 new and used cars merged this year.
McGovern, 52, claimed that after graduating school, he labored for an accounting agency that specialized in auto dealership work. He claimed he at some point went to work for a dealership client that was bought to Group 1 Automotive Inc. in 2000. With Group 1, McGovern explained he worked as the Northeast area CFO. He remaining Group 1 and in 2007 co-launched Prime Motor with David Rosenberg and David Abrams of Abrams Money.

McGovern claimed he still left Prime Motor in early 2016, right before Primary in 2017 merged with GPB Money Holdings’ Capstone Automotive Team to produce Primary Automotive Group.

On his possess, McGovern reported he purchased his to start with keep in September 2016, a Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram shop in Newton, Mass., with some economical assistance from his sister.

“It was a satisfaction to shuffle throughout the road and get rolling on my own with a great, wonderful administration crew,” McGovern said. “So we immediately purchased 4 dealerships in quarter four of 2016: an additional Hyundai store, a Honda store, and I was in a position to purchase our Toyota retailer in December of 2016. And that mixture of stores has fueled my progress in conditions of extraordinary profitability suitable from the get-go.”

In mid-2018, McGovern said he additional his first luxurious dealerships, acquiring Audi and BMW in Shrewsbury, Mass., and in June 2020 he additional his very first Porsche dealership, also on Prolonged Island.

“It was March of 2020, and I place it under agreement,” he recalled. “I was sending out the $500,000 deposit and my CFO stated, ‘What? Are you mad? There is certainly a pandemic going on.’ And I was like, I’m not ridiculous. And I feel on the other facet of this, it really is going to be seriously, actually excellent.”

The Lundgren keep helps McGovern have some efficiencies in western Massachusetts, he claimed, and follows the strategic acquisition this year of Dillon Chevrolet to aid with the group’s new municipal division. McGovern claimed he aims to offer municipal autos this sort of as law enforcement and servicing cars “to cities and towns all over Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and as nicely as potentially the condition law enforcement in Massachusetts.”

With the Invoice Dube Hyundai acquisition, Scott Dube joined McGovern Automotive as vice president of govt and business relations. Dube, who also will continue on to serve on the board of administrators for the Nationwide Automobile Sellers Association, claimed he retained a minority desire in the dealership, but he did not disclose it.

Dube advised Automotive Information that he did not want to provide his retail store, but discovered that “timing’s anything.”

“Fascination rates are swiftly escalating, fuel prices are swiftly raising, inflation is speedily expanding,” he claimed, incorporating that these alterations place tension on the family business enterprise.

He said it also was a good time for his family members to reduce threat exposure offered that “there proceeds to be uncertainty about stock.”

He mentioned that when lower stock for new motor vehicles has helped dealers’ profitability, it is unclear how extensive that will last.

But McGovern sees at least a handful of fantastic several years forward for auto vendors.

“We’re likely to remain really intense,” he said of bargains that “make feeling. I assume there’s a strong one to two several years at minimum of seriously very good automotive times. So I believe it tends to make feeling to be bullish nevertheless.”

Woody Woodward and Brian Brown of DCG Acquisitions, a Dave Cantin Group company, managed the McGovern-Lundgren transaction.