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; Sun Auto Glass ran Cortez, Pagosa Springs and Durango in Colorado; Ideal Auto Glass had Odessa and Sanford in Florida; 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.
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
4 deals traced to announcements by Safelite Group, 2023 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 31 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is August 6, 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.
- 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.
In Its Trades
Trades it buys
The other confirmed bidders
No second firm is confirmed in this trade from a primary source. That is the edge of the evidence, not proof the field is clear: Buyers lists which trades rest on a single confirmed firm and why.