Micheldever’s Protyre retail chain is UK’s fastest growing

While ATS Euromaster remains the second largest retail operation in the UK (by points of sale) and opened a flagship facility at the Matrix Business Centre in Dartford last year, both it and first-placed ETEL (Kwik Fit’s parent company) shed branches in the last 12 months, making Protyre the fastest growing retailer in the country.

This year’s UK tyre retail ranking shows that the fastest growing tyre retailer is Micheldever’s Protyre chain, which added some 21 branches to its network in the last year – by far the fastest growth (both in terms of branch count and growth percentage) of any tyre retailer we are tracking. Nevertheless, ETEL remains the largest overall and is also the fastest faller, with the company running 9 points of sale less than in our 2014/2015 research. However, context makes a big difference, so for more on both these stories, read on.

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