LMP on June 13 additionally bought Beckley Buick-GMC Auto Mall in Beckley, W.Va., to Dutch Miller Auto Staff, in line with Chris Miller, that staff’s president. The pack used to be renamed Dutch Miller’s Beckley Auto Mall, Miller stated. Beckley is southeast of Charleston.
“That is a market that we really do want to be in,” Miller stated. “We are a West Virginia-based company. We want to continue to invest inside of West Virginia. Any opportunity that we can find inside of the state, we are very, very interested.”
It marks Dutch Miller’s first acquisition because it purchased a Buick-GMC pack in Kansas latter July, in line with Miller, who stated he’s operating for governor in West Virginia.
Barton stated his staff and Dutch Miller Auto received and closed one used-vehicle dealership every from LMP within the transactions. Barton stated Stephens’ used-vehicle pack is in Summersville, W.Va., year Miller’s is in Lewisburg, W.Va.
Date LMP CEO Samer Tawfik didn’t reply to demands of remark, Barton showed the Chevrolet and Buick-GMC retail outlets have been all of LMP’s extra franchised dealerships.
It’s concealed what occurs later to LMP, which had 8 franchised dealerships at its peak. All advised, the corporate spent a negligible over 27 months as a franchised dealership proprietor.
LMP stated in August that it might spontaneously delist its usual keep from the Nasdaq, and its stocks are traded over-the-counter.
LMP’s elegant plans to procure 80 to 100 dealerships by means of the tip of 2022 by no means got here similar to materializing, particularly nearest diverse demanding situations acquiring financing and latter do business in.
In August, LMP’s board of administrators unanimously really useful that stockholders approve a plan to liquidate and dissolve the corporate.
LMP nearest perceivable it had reached an promise to promote 4 West Virginia dealerships, together with King Coal Chevrolet and Beckley Buick-GMC Auto Mall and two Florida Kia dealerships, to Atlantic Coast Automobile Staff. Alternatively, in October, LMP stated that offer have been terminated by means of the consumer.
