- 08/13/2025
- 1 Min Read
- By: Evan Madore
FCP Euro Earns A Spot On 2025 Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies In America For The Twelfth Year
2025 marks FCP Euro’s 10th consecutive, and 12th total, inclusion in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
People often ask, “What’s the secret to that kind of growth?” For us, the answer has always been the same: we take care of our customers & our team and hold onto our core values. That’s the continual thread that’s carried us from a small mom-and-pop shop to being named one of the fastest growing private companies in the US for ten years running.
In 1986, Harry and Kathy Bauer opened a small auto parts shop at 734 Poquonnock Road, Groton, Connecticut, called Foreign Car Parts of Groton. No warehouse. No call center. No website. Just two people who believed that if you genuinely care about helping someone keep their car on the road, every customer matters, and every handshake is a promise.
In 2000, their son Nick Bauer took that promise into a new era, selling Volvo parts on eBay from his college dorm room. One year later, his lifelong friend Scott Drozd joined him. Two young guys, packing orders late into the night, answering hundreds of calls a day on a landline, and hand-writing labels because they could not yet afford printers. They did not have much, but they had a name, a reputation, and the unshakable belief that doing right by people always comes back around.
Nearly 40 years after the start of Foreign Car Parts of Groton, that belief is still our center of gravity. We have grown from a small, first-generation store in Groton, CT, to a second-generation market-leading organization with two distribution centers, 350 employees, 60 million dollars in inventory, and more than 1 million customers served every year.
But the soul of this company has not changed. Every order and every customer still matters. And “the right way” is still the only way we know how to work because behind every ranking, milestone, and “order shipped” are people: customers who trust us with their cars and teammates who treat that trust as sacred.
Harry and Kathy’s counter, Nick’s dorm room, Scott’s kitchen table—every era of this company is stitched together by the same thread: take care of your customers and your team, and everything else will follow.
Here’s to another year of honoring where we came from, holding fast to what matters, and pushing toward our vision: to be the world’s most trusted resource for European vehicle ownership, maintenance, and repair.
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