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Meet the founderS


Eloy Garcia

Eloy Garcia, the son of Cuban immigrants, arrived in the US in 1967. His parents settled in Hialeah, FL where he was raised until graduating high school at Hialeah Miami Lakes.

After graduating at Hialeah Miami Lakes, he went on to play 2 years at Miami-Dade North on a baseball scholarship, and later, the University of Arkansas - Little Rock also on a baseball scholarship.

After his collegiate baseball career ended, Eloy joined his parents in the insurance industry. After obtaining the necessary experience, Eloy went on to start his own insurance agency. It was with a small loan from his parents that helped make this possible. He is forever grateful as none of this would be possible without their assistance.

While Eloy was extremely successful in this venture, he felt something was missing and that he could take the experience he learned to greater heights. It was during this time that one of his customers, Nick Mendizibal Jr. from Car Factory Outlet, approached Eloy about the many opportunities in the auto retail industry. After reviewing the potential, both Eloy and Nick decided to join forces with a partnership that grew from its humble beginnings to one of the leaders in the automotive retail industry that is today Car Factory.

Here, Eloy speaks on his successes in the automotive industry:

"I am blessed to have an amazing partner and friend! We work together very efficiently and complement one another perfectly, currently, Nick and I own and operate multiple car dealerships in the south Florida market. In addition, we own a financial automotive institution, and a reconditioning center that serves multiple purposes which include but are not limited to reconditioning of all the inventory at our dealerships and provides complete automotive services to the general public.

Since our relationship started in 1993, Nick and I have also been involved in many real estate ventures both commercial and residential. Some of which have been sold and others that we currently operate together. With the many successes we have been able to accomplish together, our greatest pride and joy is the fact that we have done it with many family members and friends working on our team.

Our companies have been recognized and awarded by several banks, community leaders, charitable organizations and our loyal customers for over 27 years."

"My family is what motivates me every day to keep pushing and moving forward. I thank God every day for everything we have accomplished!"

Eloy and Nick have always made an effort to hire members of their family who are involved in the many different roles at their dealership, providing an intimate and trustworthy shopping experience through the entire car-buying process. They invite you to visit one of their locations to get treated with the respect and transparency you deserve!


nICK MENDIZABAL

Nick Mendizabal the son of Cuban immigrants arrived in Miami in 1969 at the age of 2. His family settled in Hialeah, FL where Nick was raised along with his 3 Brothers and Grandparents. Nicks parents struggled as did most recently arrived Cuban immigrants from that era, not speaking the language, and in culture shock but his parents were extremely grateful to their new country for welcoming them and allowing them the opportunity to raise their children in a free country, the best country in the world the USA. Nick Graduated in 1985 from his alma mater, Hialeah High School.

Immediately upon Graduating High School, Nick entered the workforce starting in the Beer Business. First working at Gold Coast Distributors, a Coors and Heineken Beer distributor, in the South, Florida area which he worked there as a truck delivery salesman until 1988 where he accepted an offer that he couldn't refuse from Anheuser Busch the Budweiser Beer Company. There, Nick quickly rose through the ranks and at the young age of 23 was named to a top management position. Nick learned the art of management at his new position. He worked tirelessly, was very successful, and he could've been contempt to continue rising through the ranks at Anheuser Busch Companies, but he wasn't at peace with the idea of working for others his entire life. So, in 1991 Nick made the bold move of leaving a great management position at Anheuser Busch which he will be forever grateful for and decided to branch out on his own as a business entrepreneur.

Nick with all his savings and several loans started his own Beverage Discount Distributor and storefront Beverage retail outlet. In 2 short years Nick grew the Business tremendously and sold it. The sale closed on August 21st three (3) days before a Category five (5) Hurricane Andrew which devastated the South, Florida area. During the weeks after the Hurricane, Nick realized that there were thousands of damaged vehicles all over South Florida that were sitting on the side of homes, businesses and highways. He asked an insurance adjuster why his damaged vehicle had not yet been picked by his insurance carrier after several weeks as his insurance carrier had already paid him for his vehicles. He was told because there were not enough tow trucks to handle the volume of destroyed vehicles. An idea popped into Nick's mind, and he decided to buy 2 tow trucks to operate one himself and hire someone to operate the other. The rest is history! Again in 2 short years Nick grew the tow truck company tremendously and sold it.


A few days after selling the tow truck company, Nick was bored and while visiting a friend at his place of business which happened to be an automotive retail business (a car dealership) Nick fell in love with the business and immediately went to work on opening his own car dealership. That was early 1993 and Nick opened a small dealership that was very successful from its inception. The business was great but took a lot of dedication and time. Nick soon realized in order to expand he would need to take on a partner so in 1994 Nick partnered up with another entrepreneur Eloy Garcia who at the time was Nick's Insurance go to person who owned his own insurance agency.

Fast forward 30 years since opening its doors, Car Factory has grown to a consistent successful business including three locations primarily serving all three counties in the Miami metropolitan areas of Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Car Factory is one of the largest privately owned independent retailers in the Miami Metropolitan area which is something that both Eloy and Nick are extremely proud of.