John Farquharson has been named manager of operations for TradeRev in Canada, announced company founder and CEO Mark Endras. Farquharson will be responsible for overseeing the support and arbitration departments and administrative operations throughout Canada, said TradeRev. He will also …
It was a long time coming but Dixie Toyota was finally able to open the doors to its new home at 1600 Toyo Circle in Mississauga, Ont. “To be able to open these doors after seven years is a very …
A Quebec man was recently handed the keys to a 2016 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle, the first to arrive in the province. The customer is Paul-Yvan Deschenes with the Centre de Gestion de l’Equipment Roulant (CGER), which manages vehicle …
Dealers can now use predictive analytics and data to learn more about their customers on autoTRADER.ca. TRADER Corp. has announced a partnership with Toronto-based Coherent Path that leverages the company’s data mining and predictive analytics platform. This ‘big data’ will …
Despite a healthy demand for leasing, credit approvals in the U.S. are at the lowest level for 2016, according to Swapalease.com. The automotive lease marketplace said that car lease credit applicants registered a 58.3 per cent approval rate for July …
OpenRoad Auto Group has come up with a new way to drive traffic back to The BMW Store and help market the brand. The British-Columbia based dealership group recently launched a BMW “pop-up” shop at Oakridge Centre Vancouver, making it …
While Facebook has exploded in popularity as a research tool for car shoppers, dealers should also be focusing on an even more popular site: YouTube. In a recent poll, online car lease marketplace Swapalease found U.S. car shoppers use YouTube …
Automotive technology company Nextup has announced that Canadian automotive digital veteran Brent Wees has been named Director of First Impressions. “Nextup has continued its rapid growth over the last couple of years and Brent is the perfect person to generate …
With school just around the corner, you may start to see more parents and university students walking into your dealership, looking for the perfect back-to-school vehicle. Luckily, Kelley Blue Book in the U.S. has come out with a list of …
Never assume your customer knows everything about their vehicle. In fact, despite available online resources, it appears Canadians feel ill-informed about the value of their vehicle when they go to trade it in at a dealership.
The Canadian Automobile Dealers Association, along with representatives from provincial dealer associations, officially unveiled Federation Hall, the newly-renovated student lobby at the Automotive Business School of Canada in Barrie, Ont. on June 3, 2016.
Jeffrey Bezos was a banker on Wall Street who saw enormous potential in the Internet. In 1994, at the age of 30, he quit his job and started the online retail company he would name after the Amazon River.
