Creating Value
For Dealers
The Dealer Direct Canada Difference
A strategic option for dealers in North America, helping extract the highest value when buying or selling your dealership.
Built on passion for the automotive industry, our company was founded by car dealers and industry professionals that have collectively garnered a breadth of experience both in industry, and in advisory capacities.
DDC was founded by Paul Stern, who has previously owned multiple dealerships including; Toronto Chrysler, and been a lead advisor in the M&A space for the last 8+ years, successfully completing over 30 transactions collectively. With the intention of rectifying a service gap within the industry, Paul Stern and the DDC team, continue to uphold and grow their presence as industry leaders, and confidants.
Our Team
The Dealer Direct Canada(DDC) team personally handles each transaction from start to finish. We have extensive experience navigating the twists and turns of a complex transaction. It is always our intention to provide you with the tools, advice, and support a dealer needs when making critical decisions about their transactional needs.
Our collaborative approach ensures that the right person tackles the right job every time. Dealer Direct Canada commits to you for as long as it takes to execute your transaction.
Assist both Buyers & Sellers
DDC has a broad range of connections and relationships within the automotive industry, whether it be dealers, groups, investors or bankers. With our network, and database of connections we are able to identify and source the optimal recipricating party for your transaction.
The value of engaging DDC, with our experience and network along with our proven track record, DDC is able to open doors to transactional success. We don’t take a “gorilla marketing” approach and, we become intimate with your business, in order to identify the right parties to bring to the table.
Our Experience
Our industry experience and connections enables the DDC team to quickly identify a more comprehensive list of qualified buyers and sellers, creating a competitive environment to drive up selling price and drive down acquisition costs.
Our process allows us to clearly define and manage every aspect of a transaction and ensures we capture, communicate and retain every detail with all stakeholders. The process defines responsibilities while setting realistic timelines to ensure the work gets done.
Meticulous attention to detail ensures you always know the status and next steps of your transaction.
Our Approach
Getting true value when buying or selling a business requires careful due diligence, analysis and a complete understanding of what is truly driving and affecting your business. We pay careful attention to industry-specific KPIs, performance measures, and macroeconomic factors. Going beyond just the financial statements to truly understand your business and realistically project future earnings and value.
Our financial team is prepared to analyze your business from multiple valuation approaches, and consider the intangible portions tandem to the financials. This may include: people, customers, the competitive environment, processes, intellectual property, reputation, quality of marketing systems, management system, competitive advantage, differentiation, to name a few factors. Working with you we will identify ways to strengthen your company position and enable you to get the best return on investment.