
Condor Auto Group is a newly formed company, which
will ultimately be capitalized with over $250 million of private
capital to fund a business growth and industry consolidation strategy.
Condor will be managed by several experienced auto industry executives,
who have had tremendous auto industry retail experience, but never
an adequate ownership stake or sufficient capitalization to leverage
their skills in the retail sector of the auto industry.
The principal owner of one small group of six family-owned
auto dealerships in the Philadelphia area is buying out certain
family members from a couple of those dealerships, and rolling forward
his equity into Condor. Two other senior executives have been recruited
from the Buchanan Auto Group, Sarasota, Florida, which is being
scaled-down after its founder decided to pursue a political career.
The new executive team members will also invest some of their personal
capital in this transaction, as well.
The first acquisition of a new dealership group has
recently been announced. Condor has agreed to acquire Pennmark Auto
Group, a series of three consecutively located Mercedes Benz stores,
which service Wilmington, Delaware, Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania
and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Condor Auto Group should grow from
six dealerships in 2007 to over 30 dealerships by 2011, at which
point in time it will have in excess of $2.5 billion in revenue,
which will accomplish the equity building objectives of the executive
group.
Source has helped plan the strategy, arrange the
capital support, target certain of the acquisitions, and build the
financial models and, also, James Bly is a member of the Companys
Board of Directors.
Since 1982, Source Capital, Ltd. has assisted many
clients with leveraged growth and acquisition strategies, which
have generated equity value creation for shareholders.
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| This announcement appears as
a matter of record only. December 2006 |
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