ABRA, Boyd, Caliber and Service King continue to grow their total number of locations though annual unit growth and percentage growth has slowed somewhat since high in 2014.
While the rate of acquisitions and new collision repair facility openings by the four large multiple collision repair shop operators (MSOs) in North America has slowed somewhat so far compared to earlier this decade, through the beginning of July the Big 4 are adding locations at a pace comparable to the last few years.
As of CollisionWeek’s count on July 3, 2018, the Big 4 had 1790 facilities combined, an increase of
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It would be interesting to see the percentage of MSO shops compared to the total number of shops per state, and then even do a look at the average hourly rates billed as well as the average wages paid by state.
I can possibly understand why no MSO activity in Montana with it’s lack of population density, but NONE in all of NE, especially with its population density, that is really amazing, and also surprised at none in Alabama.