Semiconductor shortages, battery backlogs, soaring lithium and cobalt prices, record-high gas prices, war in Ukraine, lockdowns in Shanghai, the supply chain issues causing auto shortages are legion and well-documented. But new research just released by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants on June …
The wholesale market continued on a mild decline this week, according to Canadian Black Book. The Canadian wholesale market for used cars continued its mostly flat trajectory with another very slight decline overall for the tenth straight week. The week …
Quebec Marketer and technologist Harry Kasparian is CMO and CPO of HGreg, and has been named an honoree of the Seventh Annual 2022 Auto Remarketing’s 40 Under 40: Dealers Awards Program. He is one of the only Canadians on the …
Kia Canada has begun a program to financially assist local charities and non-profits across Canada building inclusive communities through “innovative programming encouraging movement.” Kia Communities in Motion, which was announced last December, is a four-year, $1.4 million grassroots endeavour done in conjunction …
There was a somewhat surprising result from an inaugural study just published by JD Power, showing that Canadians are less likely than our UScounterparts to think about purchasing an electric vehicle as our next auto. The study, called the J.D. …
Executives with the Trillium Automobile Dealers Association, one of its members, and the Global Automakers of Canada consider the re-election of Ontario Premier Doug Ford with a majority government last week a win for the province’s car dealers, motorists, and …
A big near-term expansion means soon Canadian car dealers will have access to UVeye, a high-speed vehicle-inspection technology, to connect to their dealership management systems (DMS), to help improve customer satisfaction and streamline service-department operations, says the company. UVeye systems …
Exactly 20 years after he entered the dealership ownership business by purchasing a store in Barrie, then expanding his holdings in Ontario, Drew Tilson has ventured into Quebec with some recent acquisitions. The 48-year-old, whose first purchase was Barrie Nissan …
TRADE X will expand its data-science team, with the goal of enhancing and expanding the reach of its end-to-end platform for global automotive trade. A global B2B cross-border automotive trading platform based in Canada, TRADE X’s press release stated that …
We Predict, a global automobile service and warranty analytics company, has been bought by JD Power, to bolster their operations in data analytics and customer intelligence. We Predict’s software is used by OEMs and suppliers as a tool to predict …
Traditionally, May is the best month of the year in terms of new-vehicle sales, with momentum building progressively from early in the year to its late-Spring sales peak. But not this year. May 2022 sales of 140,725 units, as estimated …
The Policaro Group matched up with Canada’s preeminent matchmaker to create content outside of what it usually does with high-profile individuals, and the experience may lead to doing it more often. The Southern-Ontario company gave Carmelia Ray, an award-winning dating …
