Driven Brands
The Firm
Driven Brands is the automotive services group behind Auto Glass Now, running more than 4,200 locations with over 7,500 employees from 440 S. Church Street in Charlotte. Its glass business was assembled by acquisition inside about a year, and by the time it bought Auto Glass Fitters in September 2022 it called itself the second largest player in United States auto glass services.
It is on this page mostly because of what it publishes. Its sell-your-glass-center page states acquisition criteria in plain numbers. It wants physical or mobile format, three million dollars or more in total revenue where it has no presence and one million where it already does, an emphasis on insurance-driven or fleet-driven work, and all technicians on W-2 rather than contract. Almost no buyer in any trade on this site prints its own screen, and an owner can read that list and know in a minute whether a conversation is worth starting.
One caution belongs beside it, and it now has a filing behind it. Driven Brands franchises several of its other banners, and its recent announcements have been divestitures rather than purchases: the United States car wash business, the Canadian distribution business and the international car wash business all went out between 2024 and 2025. Its own annual report for 2025 counts two glass acquisitions in 2023, one Take 5 acquisition in 2024 and seven in 2025, so the group is still buying and the glass arm has not bought since 2023. The two 2023 glass deals were never named publicly, which is why they are not below. The glass arm is company-operated and buys operating shops directly, but the group's appetite moves.
Its newsroom, read again in September 2026: the visible index starts in February 2024 and shows three divestitures and no purchase of any kind; the releases before that sit on an investor site that refuses a script. The glass arm has not announced a purchase in four years. Read again in September 2026 for the years before the row: the newsroom holds a hundred items back to February 2024 and no glass purchase among them. The firm sold its Canadian glass distribution in 2024 and its car wash businesses in 2025, the American one to Whistle Express.
What It Buys
Charlotte, North Carolina. The company behind Auto Glass Now, and the rare buyer that publishes what it wants: a shop at three million in revenue or more, insurance or fleet driven, with every technician on a W-2.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
1 deal traced to announcements by Driven Brands, 2022, 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.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 48 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is September 18, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- Auto Glass Fitters · September 8, 2022
In business more than a decade, with a strong East Coast presence built on professional and efficient repairs.