Blackcircles.com is a United Kingdom online tyre retailer.
It was founded by the Liverpool-born entrepreneur Mike Welch in 2002 and now has a turnover of approximately £10million. [1] It sells to around 100,000 customers in the UK – making it one of the biggest online tyre retailers in the country. [2] The Chairman of Blackcircles.com is Graeme Bissett, former Group Finance Director of Kwik-Fit.
Customers book and pay for their tyres online before having them fitted at one of 987 independent garages. The company, based in the Scottish Border town of Peebles, launched Blackcircles franchises in 2006, to allow independent garages sign up to its stock-checking and ordering system. There are currently 300 garages [1] signed up.
Welch set up the website www.mechanic-torque.co.uk, in August 2007, which allows members of the public to ask fully qualified mechanics for free advice about motoring problems.