{"id":10035,"date":"2026-07-01T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:26:16","slug":"farmer-autocare-acquires-hunters-of-linlithgow-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=10035","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Autocare acquires Hunters of Linlithgow \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Wheel deal: Alistair Brailey, left, with Norman Kerr<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Farmer Autocare has acquired Hunters of Linlithgow marking the first milestone in its plan to expand across Scotland since it joined Belfast-based Kerr\u2019s Tyres Group earlier this year. Details were undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Hunters was founded in 1943 and will join 21 Farmer Autocare centres across Scotland. The team will continue to be led by general manager Alistair Brailey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He said: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen great growth over the last few years under the ownership of John and Mairi Hunter. Joining Farmer Autocare is a really exciting opportunity for our team and our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Kerr\u2019s Tyres Group plans to expand to 250 sites throughout the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Norman Kerr, founder and CEO, said:\u00a0\u201cThree months ago Farmer Autocare joined Kerr\u2019s Tyres Group and we said we\u2019d expand fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis acquisition is a significant milestone as we begin our expansion and welcome more great local businesses to our growing team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHunters of Linlithgow is exactly the kind of business we want to bring into our group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Colin McNeill, managing director of Farmer Autocare, said:\u00a0\u201cSince joining Kerr\u2019s Tyre Group three months ago, we\u2019ve worked hard to develop a strong expansion pipeline \u2013 today\u2019s announcement is the first of many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Farmer #Autocare #acquires #Hunters #Linlithgow #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheel deal: Alistair Brailey, left, with Norman Kerr Farmer Autocare has acquired Hunters of Linlithgow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[343,16019,6834,272,16020,306,6833,6830,15662,16021,6831,16022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}