Texas dealer groups,found by where the stores are
Texas has 1,871 dealership rooftops in our data, and the ones under group ownership roll up into their parent's operating states. Filter the 1,432 groups we track to the ones with a Texas store, qualify on free columns, and spend 5 credits only on the accounts you will work.
How do I find dealer groups that operate in Texas?
Set operating_state to TX. The filter returns every tracked group with at least one Texas rooftop, because a group's operating states are rolled up from its member stores rather than taken from a head-office address. That distinction is the whole job for a regional VP or partner manager whose patch is Texas: the stores are in your patch, but the company that owns them may be run from Nashville or Phoenix, and the signature you need is wherever the parent sits. Texas carries 1,871 rooftops in our data and 21,255 verified contacts across them, with Chevrolet the most-franchised OEM in the state. Against the 1,432 groups we track across the US and Canada, the Texas filter tells you which owners hold that footprint. Rooftop count, franchise footprint, combined inventory and the full operating-state list are free to read, so you can see how much of a group is really Texas before you spend 5 credits unlocking its rollup.
Operating in Texas is not headquartered in Texas
operating_states records where the rooftops are, which is the useful thing for a territory, and it deliberately does not tell you where the parent company sits. Read the full list on a group and you will often find the Texas stores are one leg of a multi-state operator whose buying happens somewhere else.
The biggest rooftop base in our coverage
1,871 Texas rooftops carry 21,255 verified contacts, and the state association counts more than 1,400 franchised dealerships across roughly 290 Texas communities. A market that size is worth working by owner rather than by store, which is exactly what the group layer is for.
Chevrolet country, and the franchise list proves it
Chevrolet is the most-franchised OEM across Texas rooftops. dealer_group_franchises is free, so you can check whether a group carries that franchise across its whole portfolio or only at its Texas stores - the difference between a national brand programme conversation and a local one.
Qualify the Texas share for nothing
Rooftop count plus the operating-state list tells you roughly how concentrated a group is here before any credit moves. A group with two states listed and a big rooftop count is a Texas account; one with fourteen states listed is a national account that happens to have Texas stores.
Compliance & sourcing
Where a group operates and where it can be written to are two different questions, and the group record is the reason to keep them apart. A Texas filter returns organizations with a Texas rooftop; the corporate office you end up emailing may sit in another state entirely, under that state's rules rather than the ones you planned for. The group row itself holds no personal information - the people fields are counts - so the compliance work starts when you join Contacts and begin writing to individuals at whichever address the parent actually uses. Our side: rollups are built from public and dealer sources and licensed for your own use under our terms of service, not sold and not for resale.
Industry context
Independent research on this segment, from the primary sources. We don't publish these figures — we read them off the publisher's own page, and last checked every one on .
Texas Automobile Dealers Association · 2025 edition
Texas Economic Impact Report
TADA represents more than 1,400 franchised dealerships across roughly 290 Texas communities, with the report estimating their direct and indirect employment, personal income and tax collections.
Prepared by Auto Outlook, Inc. for TADA.
Read it at Texas Automobile Dealers AssociationKerrigan Advisors · Q1 2026
Blue Sky Report — buy/sell market data
The dealership buy/sell market completed 478 transactions in the twelve months ending March 2026 — a record, and 114% above the pre-pandemic norm — with Q1 franchise sales up 21% year over year.
Read it at Kerrigan Advisors
Frequently asked questions
How do I find dealer groups with dealerships in Texas?
Filter operating_state to TX. Because a group's operating states are rolled up from its member rooftops, the result is every tracked group that owns at least one Texas dealership. Texas has 1,871 rooftops in our coverage, and the group filter tells you which parent companies hold them.
Does the Texas filter return groups headquartered in Texas?
No, and that is deliberate. The filter matches on where the group's rooftops operate, not on a head-office address, so it returns both Texas-based operators and out-of-state groups with Texas stores. Read the full operating_states list on a record to see how large the Texas share of the portfolio actually is.
Can I see which brands a Texas group carries?
Yes, for free. dealer_group_franchises is a pipe-delimited list of the OEM franchises held across the whole portfolio, and it sits in the preview alongside the rooftop count and the operating states. Chevrolet is the most-franchised OEM across Texas rooftops, so it is a common entry, but the list shows you the full brand footprint rather than one headline brand.
How do I reach people at a Texas dealer group?
Buy the group for 5 credits, take the member-rooftop names from its roster, then filter the Contacts product to those dealerships. Texas carries 21,255 verified decision-maker contacts, so once you know which stores belong to the group you can pull the general managers, controllers and fleet managers inside it directly.
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