{"id":23643,"date":"2026-02-20T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23643"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:29:30","slug":"tyre-entrepreneur-welch-launches-advice-firm-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23643","title":{"rendered":"Tyre entrepreneur Welch launches advice firm \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mike-Welch-.png\" alt=\"Mike Welch\" class=\"wp-image-67522 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mike-Welch-.png\" alt=\"Mike Welch\" class=\"wp-image-67522 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mike-Welch-.png 852w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mike-Welch--600x423.png 600w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mike-Welch--300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mike-Welch--768x542.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mike Welch: offering support (pic: Terry Murden \/ DB Media Services)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Michael Welch, the entrepreneur behind the online tyre company Blackcircles, has launched an investment and advisory firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Anglo Atlantic will support investors, operators and founders in automotive markets, working alongside corporate finance specialists, product designers and advisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He said: \u201cThe automotive aftermarket is entering a period of structural change. Distribution models are under pressure, customer acquisition economics are evolving, and brand-led demand creation is becoming more critical. Anglo Atlantic exists to support investors and operators navigating that shift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHaving built, scaled and exited businesses in both the UK and US, I have seen first-hand how similar challenges manifest differently across markets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAnglo Atlantic is designed to bridge those gaps, aligning capital, operators and strategy in sectors that are ultra-competitive with operational complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Welch sold Blackcircles to Michelin for \u00a350 million in 2015 and three years later he set up Tirescanner in the US, which he described as an \u201caggregator like Skyscanner\u201d that channelled customers to tyre-fitting businesses in the local area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tirescanner merged with American Tire Distributors in 2021, at which point Mr Welch became president and chief executive of the enlarged business<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He briefly branched out into the fashion marketplace with online business Atterley but it fell into administration in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Tyre #entrepreneur #Welch #launches #advice #firm #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Welch: offering support (&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[119,13849,13850,266,265,13853,1182,61,13851,13852,13854],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}