Wikipedia Draft:Leader Auto Resources (LAR), Inc.

Leader Auto Resources (LAR), Inc. is a Group buying organization for automotive dealerships and collision centers in North America.

The company's business model is to buy products in high volumes allowing it to obtain reduced prices. The products are then sold to its customer base. This is an example of a group purchasing organization (GPO).

The company's customer base consists of approximately 2,000 dealer franchises and 270 collision centers in Canada and the United States.

The products and services sold by LAR include high-volume and private-label products; direct products and services, which provides negotiated rates; equipment for the buildout or retrofit of new dealerships and collision centers; technical support and training.

US Expansion
LAR and Resilience Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based private equity firm, announced they will partner to expand LAR's dealership sourcing and service business in the U.S.    As part of the partnership, Resilience Capital Partners will acquire a 40% equity stake in LAR. The law firm of Jones Day advised on the transaction.

LAR's US operations were subsequently re-branded as DealerShopTM.