Mavis Tire Express Services

The company traces its origins to Vic’s Cycle Shop, a bicycle sales and repair shop opened in Westchester County, New York, in 1949 by Victor Sorbaro and Marion Sorbaro, which later grew into a small chain of tire shops; the company describes its store in Mount Vernon, New York, as its original store.⁠[1][2][1]

In 1972 the local business was renamed Mavis Tire Supply Corporation, a name drawn from the names of its founders, Marion and Victor Sorbaro, and became one of New York’s first dealers to carry multiple tire brands. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, under the leadership of the Sorbaro family, Mavis focused on “value-oriented service” and expanded carefully across the northeastern United States.⁠[1][1][1]

In 2008 Mavis acquired Cole Muffler Brake, the earliest acquisition among those the company lists in its brand expansion.⁠[1]

In October 2014, ONCAP, the lower mid-market platform of the Canadian private equity firm Onex, invested in Mavis Discount Tire through its ONCAP III fund, buying a minority stake from the company’s founders, who kept a majority interest. According to ONCAP, Mavis was then based in Millwood, New York, had more than 400 retail stores in five states—New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts—employed about 3,500 people and sold more than three million tires a year.⁠[3][3][3][3][3]

In August 2015 Mavis acquired Somerset Tire Service (STS) of Bridgewater, New Jersey, which had 95 stores in New Jersey, 33 in Pennsylvania and 29 in New York, plus six wholesale distribution centers operating under the Banner Tire name. At the time of the purchase STS ranked sixth on Modern Tire Dealer’s MTD 100 list of U.S. independent tire dealers, while Mavis, with 324 stores, ranked fifth; ONCAP records that this acquisition, made in partnership with the founders, doubled the size of the company.⁠[4][4][3]

In January 2018 Mavis bought 69 retail stores in Florida and Georgia from Kauffman Tire, bringing its total store count to more than 400. The same year Mavis acquired Sun Tire and Automotive Services, an 11-store chain based in Jacksonville, Florida, and later five Hill Tire Centers in South Carolina and six Dekalb Tire & Automotive Service locations in Georgia, moving up to fourth place on the MTD 100 with operations in 13 states.⁠[4][4][4][4]

On February 23, 2018, Mavis Discount Tire announced a merger agreement with Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers (Express), a portfolio company of the private equity firm Golden Gate Capital; ONCAP would sell its stake in Mavis to Golden Gate Capital, and Golden Gate and the Sorbaro brothers would both be significant shareholders in the combined company. The combined company would operate more than 830 locations in 24 states across the East Coast, the South and the Midwest, led by Mavis’s co-chief executive officers David Sorbaro and Stephen Sorbaro, with Express chief executive Ricky Brooks becoming executive chairman; financial terms were not disclosed, and Jefferies served as Mavis’s exclusive financial advisor.⁠[5][5][5][5][5]

In March 2018 ONCAP completed the sale of Mavis, realizing total proceeds of C$651 million. The company regards the 2018 merger, which also brought in Brakes Plus, as the start of a national automotive care platform, and the combined company was named Mavis Tire Express Services Corp.⁠[3][1]

In February 2020 Mavis bought 112 NTB Tire and Service CentersNTB (National Tire & Battery)NTB (National Tire & Battery) is a U.S. tire and automotive repair and maintenance chain with stores in the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast. It was formed by Sears in 1997 by combining its National Tire Warehouse and Tire America chains, was acquired by the tire wholesaler TBC Corporation in 2003, and was sold to Mavis Tire Express Services in two batches in 2020 and 2023.Open the full entry from TBCThe Boring CompanyAn American tunneling company founded by Elon Musk that develops Prufrock machines and builds and operates Loop transportation systems.Open the full entry Corporation, located in the Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Atlanta markets; the deal moved Mavis up to second place on the MTD 100.⁠[6][6]

In November 2020 Mavis merged with Town Fair Tire of New England, which continued to operate under the brand founded by the Mellen family; the deal added about 100 locations, taking Mavis past 1,000 stores.⁠[7][8]

On March 5, 2021, an investor group led by the private investment firm BayPine, in partnership with TSG Consumer Partners, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mavis together with West First Management, a holding company controlled by David and Stephen Sorbaro that was already a significant equity holder; Golden Gate Capital, the previous lead financial partner, kept a minority interest, the investor group also included StepStone Group, and financing was led by Jefferies and Owl Rock Capital with participation from Ares Capital Management and funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management. Terms were not disclosed. Mavis was then based in Millwood and had more than 1,100 service centers in 27 states, having added about 1,000 stores since 2015.⁠[8][7][7][7][7][7][7][7]

The transaction closed in the second quarter of 2021, and the Sorbaro brothers continued as co-chief executive officers.⁠[4][4]

In December 2021 Mavis announced the acquisition of Tuffy Tire & Auto Service CentersTuffy (Auto Service Chain)Tuffy Tire & Auto Service is an automotive repair and maintenance chain headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, whose stores are mostly franchised and offer services such as brakes, oil changes, tires, exhaust and engine repair. It grew out of the Tuffy Muffler shop that opened in Detroit, Michigan, in 1970, and was acquired by Mavis Tire Express Services in 2021, becoming one of its brands.Open the full entry of Toledo, Ohio, which had 165 stores, more than 140 of them franchised; with Tuffy, Mavis had more than 1,200 locations in 35 states, Tuffy chief executive Roger Hill joined the leadership team of the combined company, and terms were not disclosed.⁠[9][9][9][9][1]

In early 2022 Mavis acquired the retail stores of Orlando, Florida-based Action Gator Tire Stores from Christensen Enterprises, strengthening its presence in Florida; the 2021 MTD 100 listed Action Gator with 19 retail and commercial locations, in 48th place. In July 2022 Mavis also acquired Melvin’s Tire Pros & Auto Service Centers, a five-store chain based in Rhode Island.⁠[4][4][4][4]

On May 22, 2023, TBC Corporation announced the sale of its entire company-owned retail business to Mavis, comprising 392 NTB Tire and Service Centers and 203 Tire Kingdom Service Centers in Florida, Texas and states in the mid-Atlantic, Midwest and South; the two companies also signed a distribution agreement under which TBC would supply tires to Mavis stores, and financial terms were not disclosed. Co-chief executive Stephen Sorbaro said the deal would let the company deepen its presence in existing markets and take the Mavis brand into new markets in the Midwest, the mid-Atlantic and Texas.⁠[10][10][10][10][10]

On June 1, 2023, TBC announced that it had completed the transaction, transferring ownership and operation of the 392 NTB and 203 Tire Kingdom stores to Mavis, whose retail network grew to about 2,000 stores; by Modern Tire Dealer’s research, this made Mavis the largest tire store chain in the United States by store count.⁠[11][11][11][4]

The acquisition was financed by Neuberger Berman: its alternatives unit, NB Alternatives, led the purchase of a minority stake in Mavis, with the proceeds used to buy the NTB and Tire Kingdom stores, while existing investors BayPine, TSG and Golden Gate Capital remained shareholders.⁠[12][12][13]

In August 2024, answering questions from Modern Tire Dealer, David Sorbaro said that the integration of NTB and Tire Kingdom staff had been completed; about 25 older, poorly located stores had closed, no Tire Kingdom stores had been rebranded and none were planned to be, and some NTB stores close to Mavis stores had been switched to the Mavis brand. He said the company’s future growth would come from same-store sales increases, new stores and possibly acquisitions.⁠[14][14][14][14]

On June 16, 2025, Mavis announced that it had completed the purchase of the auto repair franchise brand Midas from TBC Corporation; financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expanded Mavis’s retail network to more than 3,500 locations in the United States and Canada, including nearly 1,300 franchised locations; Midas continues as a standalone brand on the Mavis platform, with its headquarters remaining in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.⁠[15][15][15]

On July 21, 2026, Mavis and Icahn EnterprisesIcahn EnterprisesIcahn Enterprises L.P. (Nasdaq: IEP) is an American diversified holding company organized as a limited partnership. Controlled by the activist investor Carl Icahn, it operates businesses in energy, automotive services, food packaging, real estate and other sectors through its subsidiaries.Open the full entry announced a definitive agreement under which a Mavis subsidiary would acquire The Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack Holding Corp. from Icahn Automotive Group LLC, a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises, for approximately $700 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments; Icahn Enterprises would retain the owned real estate previously transferred to it from Pep Boys, as well as the AAMCO Transmissions and Precision Tune Auto Care businesses. Before the announcement Mavis had more than 3,600 owned and franchised stores; Pep Boys had nearly 800 locations nationwide, with a significant footprint in the western United States.⁠[16][16][16][16][16]

Co-chief executive David Sorbaro said Pep Boys was one of the most well-respected names in the automotive aftermarket and that its distribution network would strengthen Mavis’s supply chain nationwide. Covington & Burling and Bullard Law Group served as legal counsel to Mavis, and Jefferies as exclusive financial advisor.⁠[16][16][16]

On August 20, 2026, the two companies announced that the transaction had been completed for approximately $700 million in cash. Pep Boys keeps its own brand as one of the Mavis brands; with the addition of nearly 800 Pep Boys stores, the Mavis network grew to more than 4,400 service centers across the United States and Canada, with a substantially expanded presence in the western United States. Co-chief executive Stephen Sorbaro said the focus would now turn to bringing the two organizations together and supporting technicians and store teams.⁠[17][17][17][17][18]

As of August 2026, the automotive service brands operated by Mavis include Mavis Discount Tire, Mavis Tires & Brakes, Pep Boys, Midas, Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers, Brakes Plus, Tire Kingdom, NTB (National Tire & Battery), Town Fair Tire and Tuffy, offering tires and brakes, oil changes, inspections and auto repair; Mavis Tires & Brakes is a sub-brand of Mavis Discount Tire.⁠[17][17][1]

As of October 2026, on the company’s figures from before the Pep Boys acquisition, there were more than 2,100 company-operated Mavis-branded service centers in 36 states; including franchised locations, its brands are present in 49 U.S. states (all except South Dakota) and Canada. The company is headquartered at 100 Hillside Avenue in White Plains, New York, having previously been based in Millwood, New York.⁠[1][1][19][5]

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