Business View Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 3

78 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 I f anyone can say, “It’s in the blood” when it comes to professions, that person is George Grubbs III, President and CEO of Grubbs Automotive – a company that traces its roots back to George’s great-grandfather. “Hubert Grubbs was in the grocery business back in the 1940s and he had a small grocery store in Dallas,” recounts Grubbs. “During World War II, the government asked all the auto manufacturers to stop making cars and start making war equipment, so no new cars were being built. Cars became very valuable, and my great- grandfather put a couple of used cars out in front of the grocery store. The next thing you know he’s making more money on cars than he is on groceries, so he said, ‘I think I need to be in the car business’.” After the war, Dodge offered Hubert a new car dealership and the rest, as they say, is history. “My grandfather grew up watching his father sell cars,” Grubbs continues. “He got to learn the business AT A GLANCE GRUBBS AUTOMOTIVE WHAT: A leading family-owned auto dealership group WHERE: Headquarters in Grapevine, Texas WEBSITE: www.grubbs.com GRUBBS A U T O M O T I V E In the business of people