Take A Ride Through Our History
Monro, Inc. has been a pioneer in the auto service industry since Charles J. “Chuck” August opened his first muffler shop in Rochester in 1957.
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1957 Start Chuck August opens his first Midas Muffler store in Rochester, NY
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1966 THE BIG DECISION Broke from the Midas organization; Monro name was born
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1984 Acquisition Peter Solomon and Donald Glickman acquire control of Monro; 59 stores
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1991 Stock Market Monro begins trading on NASDAQ under “MNRO”; 143 stores
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1998 MORE STORES Monro acquires 205 U.S. Speedy Muffler King stores
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2002-2004 GAINING TRACTION WITH TIRES Monro acquires 60 Tread Quarters, Kimmel and Mr. Tire stores
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2005 DELIVERING DIVIDENDS Monro declares its first cash dividend
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2009 MORE TIRES Monro acquires 41 Tire Warehouse stores
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2012 MORE STORES Monro acquires 140 stores
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2015 FRANCHISING Monro acquires Car-X franchise business
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2016 TOPPING 1,000 Monro tops 1,000 stores
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2017 BREAKING A BILLION $150 million in sales acquired; top $1 billion in total sales
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2018 MONRO.FORWARD Monro develops a scalable platform to drive growth