Safelite Group
The Firm
Auto glass was held off this shelf on the reasoning that no platform announces the purchase of a single install shop. Safelite does exactly that, one release per seller, and the releases name the towns.
Read what it buys and the trade's exit picture is clear. Intermountain Auto Glass was one shop in Garden City, Idaho, and Sun Auto Glass ran Cortez, Pagosa Springs and Durango in Colorado. Ideal Auto Glass had Odessa and Sanford in Florida, and Thompson Auto Glass held three locations across New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Those are the businesses a searcher buys.
The one caveat a searcher should hold is timing. The published run stops in January 2024, so what this shelf can show is a buyer that has repeatedly paid for one and two-shop independents, not one that is demonstrably still shopping this quarter.
Read again in September 2026, still true: twenty months of press releases since Thompson Auto Glass carry a home office, a charity partnership and a hiring event, and no shop. Read beside Driven Brands' glass arm, which has bought nothing in four years, the two national buyers of independent glass shops have both gone quiet at once. The whole newsroom opened that evening holds nine more purchases from September 2022 to October 2023, each release printing the day the transaction was completed, and then nothing since January 2024.
What It Buys
Columbus, Ohio. The largest US vehicle glass company, which buys independent auto glass shops one and two at a time and publishes a release for each, with the closing date printed in the body.
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
13 deals traced to announcements by Safelite Group, 2022 to 2024, 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 32 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.
- Thompson Auto Glass · January 5, 2024
Three locations across New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
- Freddy's Glass · December 8, 2023
An independent glass shop, bought a month before the New England deal.
- Absolute Auto Glass, Inc. · October 31, 2023
A California auto glass company's assets, closed October 31 after an agreement announced the same day.
- Intermountain Auto Glass · October 6, 2023
A single independent glass shop in Garden City, Idaho, bought whole.
- Sun Auto Glass · September 29, 2023
A three-town Colorado shop: Cortez, Pagosa Springs and Durango.
- Ideal Auto Glass · July 14, 2023
A Florida auto glass company with Odessa and Sanford locations, its assets closed July 14, 2023.
- Advanced Auto Glass · June 9, 2023
A Weatherford, Texas auto glass company's assets, closed June 9, 2023.
- New Angle Glass · May 19, 2023
A Boston-area auto glass company's assets, closed May 19, 2023.
- Mark's Mobile Glass · March 3, 2023
A central Missouri mobile auto glass company's assets, closed March 3, 2023.
- Premium Auto Glass · December 9, 2022
A Denver auto glass company's assets, closed December 9, 2022.
- Reliable Glass (auto glass assets) · October 14, 2022
A Phoenix glass company's auto glass assets, closed October 14, 2022.
- Genuine Auto Glass · October 7, 2022
A Seattle auto glass company's assets, closed October 7, 2022.
- Binswanger Glass (auto glass assets) · September 30, 2022
A Memphis glass company's auto glass assets across the Midwest and Southeast, closed September 30, 2022.