Express Wash Concepts
The Firm
Express Wash Concepts operates Moo Moo Express, Clean Express Auto Wash, Flying Ace Express and Green Clean Express across the Midwest, and its newsroom names the seller and prints the closing month in almost every post. That is unusually readable for this trade, where most platforms publish grand openings and nothing else.
What matters to a searcher is the SIZE of what it buys. One deal was a single Zips site on Montgomery Road in Cincinnati; another was one wash in North Royalton, Ohio; another was Cleanland Car Wash in Macedonia. Those are one-site businesses, which is the thing a searcher actually owns, and they are being bought by a platform that has done it repeatedly across four brands.
So the exit for a well-run single-site express wash in this footprint is not hypothetical. It also sets the competitive picture on the buy side: a searcher bidding on a Midwest tunnel is bidding against somebody with three neighbouring sites and a rebrand playbook.
What It Buys
Columbus, Ohio. Midwest express car wash platform running four regional brands, which grows by buying single sites and small local chains and rebranding them into whichever of its four names fits the market.
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
4 deals traced to announcements by Express Wash Concepts, 2024 to 2025, 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.
- Montgomery Road Zips · October 24, 2025
A single express conveyor site in Cincinnati, rebranded to Flying Ace.
- Royalton Car Wash · September 17, 2025
One wash on Royalton Road in North Royalton, Ohio.
- Cleanland Car Wash · June 2, 2025
A single site in Macedonia, Ohio, folded into Clean Express Auto Wash.
- Two Cosmo's Car Wash locations · March 1, 2024
The firm's entry into Detroit, bought as a two-site chain.