Kwik-Fit is being sold to the same Japanese group that owns UK fast-fit rival Stapleton’s Tyre Services (STS).
The £637m deal puts the UK’s largest fast-fit chain in the hands of Itochu Corporation, a multinational £25bn-turnover trading company with wide wide-ranging interests, including tyre-related businesses, textiles and machinery.
Itochu has owned STS since 1994 and has grown that business into a network of more than 110 fast-fit workshops plus a national tyre wholesaling operation.
The addition of £900m turnover Kwik-Fit, if approved by the competition authorities, would give Itochu an additional 1,218 workshops in Europe, of which 673 are in the UK.
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