# Access Holdings

Baltimore, Maryland. Buys main-street service businesses at $5M-$20M of EBITDA into platforms: car washes under Spotless Brands, pet daycare and boarding under WagWay Group, plus funeral homes and pet aftercare.

- Website: https://www.accessholdings.com/

## The Firm

Access Holdings, formed in 2013 in Baltimore, describes itself as a research-led, data-driven firm with $2.3 billion under management and a forty-plus-person team, half of it from underrepresented demographics, under founder and managing partner Kevin McAllister. The strategy is stated with unusual precision: essential-service businesses in fragmented industries with persistent demand, bought at $5 to $20 million of EBITDA and scaled toward $80 to $100 million, with roughly $200 million deployed per platform.

The execution record is more than 250 add-on acquisitions, and its pitch to founders is speed, compressing years of transformation into months with thematic research and proven playbooks. Its platforms in this registry are the visible edge: Spotless Brands rolling up car washes and WagWay Group doing the same in pet boarding and daycare.

For a searcher the significance is the entry price: $5 million of EBITDA at platform formation is the top of the searcher market, and its add-on engines buy well below that. In car washes and pet care especially, the other bidder is often an Access platform. The facts to carry into a meeting are the 2013 founding, the research-led identity, the EBITDA range, and the 250-add-on record.

Read again in September 2026: no car wash or pet resort purchase since Pete's, and both platforms are still listed as current. The firm's newest platform is a Pacific Northwest towing group taken in August 2026 with an independent sponsor, and every release on the site is a PDF that prints its own dateline.

## In Its Trades

- Car Wash: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-car-wash
- Pet Boarding & Daycare: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-pet-boarding-business

The other confirmed bidders: Trivest Partners (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/trivest), Express Wash Concepts (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/express-wash-concepts), Frontenac (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/frontenac), Whistle Express Car Wash (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/whistle-express-car-wash), Mammoth Holdings (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/mammoth-holdings).

## Confirmed Deals

Deals traced to announcements, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.

- Reliable Towing Holdings Ltd. (2026-08-05): A Pacific Northwest towing, recovery and roadside platform taken as a controlling investment beside an independent sponsor. Source: https://accessholdings.com/access-holdings-completes-majority-investment-in-reliable-towing/
- Pete's Express Car Wash (2025-11-20): Six express car-wash sites in Greater Philadelphia, folded into the Flagship Carwash brand under Spotless Brands. Source: https://accessholdings.com/spotless-brands-makes-strategic-entry-into-philadelphia-with-petes-express-car-wash-acquisition/
- Pawville (2024-09-25): Luxury pet boarding, daycare, and grooming resorts across four Southeastern states, joining the WagWay Group platform. Source: https://accessholdings.com/wagway-announces-partnership-with-pawville/

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Last checked: 2026-08-05

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