Originally Posted by Al_Alguire
Equity firms don't buy businesses to make them better for the customer. The generally buy them to profit from dismantling them. Not unuslay for the third generation of a family business to be disinterested in continuing to run/own them. They have lived a nice life from their predecessors hard work and usually have no interest in it.


This. In the New Vehicle Dealership Service and Parts world, it’s known as “Build it, will it, kill it.”