The Lafayette dealership, northwest of Indianapolis, is minutes away from Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc., the automaker’s lone manufacturing plant in North America. Fort Wayne is northeast of Indianapolis.
Final month, Zeigler, of Kalamazoo, Mich., and one of many largest privately owned dealership teams within the U.S., purchased three franchised dealerships in Michigan.
Zeigler now has 4 Subaru dealerships in its portfolio. Zeigler purchased its first Subaru dealership in Could 2021 with the acquisition of a retailer in northwest Indiana. The group acquired one other Subaru dealership as a part of a four-store acquisition in Wisconsin later that yr.
Rohrman Automotive, of Lafayette, ranks No. 58 on Automotive Information‘ record of the highest 150 dealership teams based mostly within the U.S., retailing 13,938 new automobiles in 2022. The group was based by the late Bob Rohrman, who died in September 2020.
Kevin Nill, managing director of Haig Companions, a buy-sell agency in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., represented Rohrman Automotive within the transaction.