Industries We Serve
Cost Validation for Automotive Groups
The Opportunity
One correction, repeated across every rooftop.
Retail automotive groups carry utilities across large facilities, specialized waste handling, uniform and shop-towel programs, and telecom spread across every rooftop. Because the same vendors and contracts repeat site to site, an error found at one location is often present at all of them.
ICC has the deepest track record in this sector — enough to build a dedicated program around it.
Where the Money Hides
Where dealer-group cost stacks up
In a dealer group, the same vendors and contracts repeat at every rooftop, so a single billing error rarely stays isolated — it multiplies across the group month after month. We benchmark utilities, waste, uniform and shop-towel programs, and telecom site by site to surface the charges quietly stacking up across your locations.
- Per-location utility and waste charges that repeat across the group
- Uniform, mat, and shop-towel programs full of minimums and extras
- Telecom and connectivity duplicated rooftop to rooftop
- Contracts inherited through acquisitions and never re-benchmarked
Your Next Step
Find out what you're overpaying
Send one recent invoice for a free, no-obligation cost validation — or run the numbers yourself in two minutes. Performance-based: you pay only when you benefit.
ICC Auto 500 · Profit With Purpose
A dedicated program for dealership groups
- Goal: help 500 dealership groups permanently reduce annual costs by $25,000–$50,000 per location.
- Profit With Purpose: ICC pledges 10% of its profits to each dealership's chosen nonprofit.
- Backed by auto-industry expertise, four-category coverage, and proprietary benchmarking — with no upfront cost.
What We Validate Here
The categories that move the needle for you
Every engagement can span all four categories. For your sector, these usually carry the most opportunity.
Why It Adds Up
The odds favor finding something
of audits find an error or overcharge
data points in our benchmark
typical window to recover past overcharges
Upfront — performance-based; you pay only when you benefit
Work runs off-site against your invoices — no disruption to your operations.
The Bottom Line
Practical takes on the costs worth questioning
Steve Thompson's podcast, videos, and newsletter — real perspective on operating expenses, vendor billing, and protecting cash flow. Worth a listen before your next invoice.