There are going to be some happy campers in 2012 as the newly donated Saskatchewan Automobile Dealers Association (SADA) bus rolls into use to take children to Camp Easter Seal. SADA has been a long and proud supporter of Easter …
Distinction helps set B.C. dealer group apart from competitors You might think your dealership staff are happy and engaged, but have you asked them their opinion? Better yet, have you measured their level of engagement with the best companies in …
Early registration for the upcoming National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention and Expo in Las Vegas indicates attendance is on pace to exceed 20,000 for the first time in four years. The NADA says this offers another sign the auto …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The New Car Dealers Association of BC (NCDABC) is pleased that the recent provincial government’s $5,000 incentive to buy a green vehicle will be done at the time of sale and consumers can get the funds through their dealer without …
