NEW YORK, Aug. 07, 2024 – The Dave Cantin Group (DCG), a leading advisor to retail automotive groups and their owners, is partnering with CBT News, the leading multimedia news outlet for the automotive retail sector, to co-launch “Inside M&A.” The digitally native show brings viewers a conversation for the industry with a deeper look inside the world of auto retail mergers and acquisitions.
Dave Cantin Group President and CEO Dave Cantin and CBT Founder Jim Fitzpatrick host the show featuring in-depth interviews and insights from top dealer owners, auto industry leaders and analysts. “Inside M&A” shares broad-ranging stories, news and trends affecting the automotive retail M&A market.
“There are an unprecedented number of factors affecting the retail automotive industry, the dealer community and their stakeholders; all of which are having a major impact on M&A,” explains Dave Cantin. “The goal of this show is to provide powerful information and insights from some of the industry’s most respected sources and to help everyone associated with retail M&A be more educated and more confident about how to approach their platform management and acquisition strategies.”
“Inside M&A” premieres today with Ken Ganley Automotive CEO Ken Ganley as the first guest. Stephen Dietrich, author of the newly released book Fear Dynamics and leader of the nationwide practice at Holland & Knight focused on automotive dealership M&A, is the next guest. New episodes will be released approximately once a month through the fall and will be available on the CBT website, CBT YouTube channel and syndicated on connected TV via AppleTV, Roku and Google Play.
“Retail M&A is one of the topics our audience always craves expert insights and opinions on,” Fitzpatrick said. “Collaborating with an M&A industry leader like Dave Cantin to direct the topics, curate the right expert guests and draw out powerful insights is exactly what our audience needs.”
