NAPA Auto Parts’ Quebec has announced the appointment of Benoît Cloutier to the position of Business Development Specialist for Car Dealerships. Cloutier, who has a background in marketing joined the team in May and has over 25 years of experience in the automotive industry.
Cloutier began his career in the automotive industry back in 1995, when he started at a Montreal area car dealership. Since then he has worked in several different positions and dealerships. With extensive distribution experience, he has previously held positions for the automotive group at LAR as their Business Development Director and with Wolseley Canada as the Commercial Director in charge of the province of Quebec.
Cloutier will rely on his dealership experience as well as his 12 years of experience in the distribution industry as he takes on this new role at NAPA Auto Parts, which operates 600 stores across Canada and distributes over 500,000 replacement parts, tools, equipment and products for the body shop supplies industry. As part of his role as Business Development Specialist for Car Dealerships, Cloutier will work within NAPA Auto Parts’ Major Accounts team where he will report to Pierre Berthiaume, the Major Accounts Manager for the Quebec Region.
