Manitoba-based Murray Automotive Group, which celebrated 85 years in business in 2011, has acquired a minority interest in Interior B.C.’s Salmon Arm Honda, the latest acquisition after it took over the Hyundai dealership in White Rock in March. The Group …
Survey project to inform dealers about what customers think and feel Canadians have LOTS of ideas and impressions about Canadian auto dealers, automotive brands, and the vehicle purchasing experience. If only dealers could get inside the heads of their customers, …
Denis Ducharme, president of the Motor Dealers Association of Alberta, is looking at 2012 as a year when legislation prohibiting right hand drive (RHD) vehicles in the province is brought before the legislature. Legislation was to go forward in the …
But in the current economic climate that’s a good result By the time you read this magazine, 2011 will be history and you’ll know the final sales figures for the year. Or, if you don’t, you can find them at …
Difficult managers and employees are easy to spot, but hard to fix. I have just finished reading a great book by Robert I. Sutton Ph.D called the “No Asshole Rule.” Sutton is a professor of management at Stanford University and …
General managers are increasingly the “go to” people within dealerships. Canadian auto dealer spoke with some to find out how their roles are adapting. In modern automotive retailing, we’ve seen numerous changes in the way aspects of dealership operations are …
The new year brings change and opportunity I love the way each new year starts in the automotive industry. It’s a familiar cycle of activities that I have come to really enjoy over the years. From auto shows on both …
PCG Pit Stop event brings experts north to inform dealers about new marketing tools Time starved dealership staff were able to take a day off the treadmill and focus on some intense digital marketing learning when the PCG Pitstop Conference …
This past October, hundreds of the nation’s most progressive auto dealers converged in Las Vegas for the 2011 DrivingSales Executive Summit (DSES). The event was roiling with progressive thinking and tactical battle plans. I could write pages about the CEO …
The news photos of SL Ford Sales Ltd’s. burned trucks were flashed across Canada after a wildfire consumed approximately one-third of Slave Lake, a northern B.C. community in May 2011. But since then SL Ford and its employees have been …
China’s demand for resources has fueled Canada’s economy Bound as we are by geography to the United States, it is easy to assume that our entire economic fate is tied to the Americans. There is some truth to this — …
Quorum Information Technologies had an insider’s view when it developed its DMS software for dealers Without a skeleton most things on this earth can’t be held together, whether they are living organisms or man made structures. Take the case of …
