{"id":10038,"date":"2026-07-01T09:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:51:11","slug":"farmer-autocare-acquires-hunters-of-linlithgow-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10038","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Autocare acquires Hunters of Linlithgow \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alistair-Brailey-General-Manager-at-Hunters-of-Linlithgow-with-Norman-Kerr.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197105 lazyload\" style=\"width:834px;height:auto\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alistair-Brailey-General-Manager-at-Hunters-of-Linlithgow-with-Norman-Kerr.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197105 lazyload\" style=\"width:834px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alistair-Brailey-General-Manager-at-Hunters-of-Linlithgow-with-Norman-Kerr.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alistair-Brailey-General-Manager-at-Hunters-of-Linlithgow-with-Norman-Kerr-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alistair-Brailey-General-Manager-at-Hunters-of-Linlithgow-with-Norman-Kerr-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alistair-Brailey-General-Manager-at-Hunters-of-Linlithgow-with-Norman-Kerr-600x431.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Wheel deal: Alistair Brailey, left, with Norman Kerr<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Business Bulletin:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Sign up for our breakfast email of the day\u2019s breaking news<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#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 marking the first milestone in its plan to expand across Scotland since it joined Belfast-based&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[2876,11925,11931,283,11926,282,11930,11927,11338,11928,11929,11932],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","tag-acquires","tag-alistair-brailey","tag-autocare","tag-business","tag-colin-mcneill","tag-daily","tag-farmer","tag-farmer-autocare","tag-hunters","tag-hunters-of-linlithgow","tag-kerrs-tyres-group","tag-linlithgow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}