Merchants Tire and Automotive Center falls under the acquisition of Tire Kingdom by TBC Corporation. There are approximately 115 stores nationwide as of 3/16/2011.
Founded in 1943, the Merchant family from Manassas, VA owned and operated the first retail stores for Merchants Tire and Auto. Over the next decades, the company expanded along the East Coast. In the year 2000, TBC Corporation purchased Tire Kingdom who was Merchant's Tire and Auto parent company.[1]