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Four years ago, Gills Point S Tire & Auto was a family-owned business based in Oregon, with 17 stores. Since then, the company has quadrupled in size and leapfrogged from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast, adding locations in some states in between. Read the full story at Modern Tire Dealer: https://www.moderntiredealer.com/retail/article/55128781/growing-and-investing-in-gills-point-s

Those numbers reflect the number of new locations, the number of new states (the three M’s: Maine, Michigan, Maryland) with a Point S location, and the number of years into the marketing group’s five-year strategic vision.

Point S USA added a record number of new stores in 2023 — 69 — and expanded
into three new states: Michigan, Maine and Maryland. The pace puts the group
ahead of schedule in its goal of becoming a 500-store cooperative by 2028.

Co-op Wants 500 Stores in 50 States Point S tire dealers in the U.S. closed the 2022 books with a 10% increase in sales and a multi-faceted plan to keep those increases coming in the future. That plan includes rolling out the welcome mat for new dealers who are looking for buying power, but aren’t…

If you’re on a ship sailing the high seas and get caught in a storm, you have two options. The first is to stay put, batten down the hatches and retreat all crew members to the lower decks in hopes that this will all blow over soon. The second is to rev the engines and…

The Point S Tire and Automotive Service USA group of tire dealers may be celebrating the cooperative’s 40th anniversary this year, but another number is equally as important…. https://www.tirebusiness.com/expansion/point-s-launches-500-stores-50-states-5-years-plan

Imagine a line graph where the line extends so far up and to the right that bells sound and confetti inexplicably falls from the sky – that’s where Point S lives. In 2021, total sales dollars across Point S locations were up 24% from 2020. Same-store growth was up 15%. The co-op added 20 new members last…

Originally Published in Modern Tire Dealer, February 1, 2022, by Joy Kopcha For the fifth straight year, Point S tire dealers in the U.S. recorded double-digit growth in tire unit sales. In 2021, units were up 17%. In dollars, sales increased 24% compared to 2020. Some of that increase can be attributed to higher tire…

As business owners, the buck stops with us. What Point S Owners know, is that while they’re still wearing their crown, they have the support and resources to take the weight off of their shoulders. If there’s one thing we know at Point S, it’s that even though you’re an independent owner, you’re not alone.  Our response to…

By Joy Kopcha – Posted on February 24, 2020. Originally published at ModernTire.com Nineteen new U.S. stores started flying the Point S banner in 2019, and they helped the group increase its sales by 10% for the second year in a row. Clint Young, chief operating officer, says 2019 “was our most successful year of…