Infleet will change ownership on 1 April 2026 after Equine Rescue Services (ERS) agreed to acquire the business. For the tyre trade, the significance lies in continuity: the company’s roadside tyre support model, long-standing dealer relationships and established rescue links are set to continue under new ownership, with Chris Comport staying on the board during the transition.
Infleet said the ownership change will take effect from 1 April, ending a 50-year period in the tyre sector for long-standing owner Chris Comport. In the release, Comport said that, after five decades in the industry, it was time to step back. He will, however, remain on the board to support the handover and help shape the next phase of the business.
That point matters for the trade because succession events in service-led tyre businesses can unsettle dealer networks, fleet customers and supply partners. In this case, the message from both sides is continuity rather than disruption, with management support retained during the transition and the dealer network positioned as a beneficiary of future development.
ERS is not entering the business cold. The company says it has worked with Infleet for more than 20 years, and its own site describes Infleet as a specialist national tyre breakdown organisation with which it has built a long-standing relationship. ERS also operates in specialist rescue and roadside support, with a heritage in vehicle and equine transport assistance, making the acquisition strategically coherent rather than opportunistic.
In practice, that existing relationship lowers integration risk. ERS already understands the operating model, the service expectations of roadside customers and the role Infleet plays in supporting specialist vehicles, including horseboxes and trailers. For dealers and service partners, that should make the transition more stable than a sale to a buyer without sector knowledge.
Infleet’s relevance to TyreNews readers is its service position in roadside tyre support. The company describes itself as operating a 24-hour, year-round breakdown service for vehicles with tyre problems, which puts it directly into the uptime, response-time and network-reliability questions that matter to fleets and mobile tyre service providers.
This builds on a wider market trend already visible across the sector: larger operators are putting more weight on structured service models, network coverage and contract continuity. TyreNews recently reported on McGill’s Group Consolidates Entire 625-Vehicle Fleet Under New Michelin Managed Contract, where tyre policy was framed around uptime, service consistency and operational simplicity. It also reported Halfords Appoints Jess Jones as Director of Fleet Solutions, underlining how fleet servicing decisions increasingly shape tyre sourcing and maintenance delivery at scale.
Against that backdrop, the Infleet deal is less about a name change and more about whether the business can preserve trusted service coverage while opening new room for growth. If ERS can use the acquisition to strengthen response capability, deepen partner integration and widen support for specialist fleets, the move could have practical value for the dealer network rather than being a purely corporate event. That is the commercial test the market will watch from 1 April onward.
Tagged with: Infleet, Equine Rescue Services, ERS, Chris Comport, tyre breakdown services, roadside tyre support, dealer network, fleet uptime, tyre service network, ownership change
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