Club Car Wash Acquires Glide Xpress Car Wash

• Club Car Wash bought Glide Xpress Car Wash, a family-owned express tunnel operator in the Mid-South with locations in the Memphis and Northwest Arkansas markets. It’s a whole-platform deal, not a selective carve-out of sites. Consideration, deal structure and advisors were not disclosed.
• Each Glide site will get a short, staggered three-to-five-day closure to convert to the Club Car Wash brand, with upgrades to equipment, technology and amenities. That keeps revenue disruption small and brings the acquired sites onto Club’s operating platform and app quickly.
• Club will keep Glide members on their current plans and pricing through December 31, 2027, then move them to Club pricing. Protecting legacy pricing this way helps keep members and protects recurring revenue through the ownership change.

The deal shows that scaled express platforms still prefer to buy established regional operators outright, because it gives them a ready-made membership base and good sites far faster than new builds. Keeping legacy member pricing until the end of 2027 shows how much buyers value recurring membership revenue and how they manage churn risk when one brand converts to another. For founder-owned operators in the Mid-South and other secondary markets, the deal is more evidence that strategic buyers want entire platforms, which can support premium valuations for multi-site operators with stable membership bases.