Reynolds and Reynolds has named Tommy Barras as the company’s new President and Chief Operations Officer. Barras was part of Universal Computer Systems (UCS) in 1976 — years before the company acquired Reynolds and Reynolds and merged the operations of …
F&I company LGM Financial Services has announced new digital solutions and services to help support dealerships in Canada. Some of the digital products include personalized e-menu selling within the HUB (an e-contract enabled point-of-sale system), and proprietary technology (F&I product …
Canadian auto dealer editor Todd Phillips talks with Glenn and Brian Pasch, PCG Digital, about their upcoming Digital Marketing Strategies Conference. The annual event will be hosted virtually for the first time from July 13-15, and attendees will learn …
The latest update from Canadian Black Book indicates that wholesale prices slowly declined, car segments for 2-8 year-old vehicles slipped 0.60%, and trucks, SUVs and crossovers fell by 0.85%. The news comes as no surprise for anyone that has been …
Estimated sales of 113,224 new vehicles in Canada in May represented a 44.0% decline from the same month last year. And that’s good news! While it is a dramatic loss of sales for what should be the strongest month of …
Canadian auto dealer editor Todd Phillips interviews Richard Trevisan, Brand Director at Genesis Motors Canada, on how the company continues to innovate and improve its customer experience. Trevisan says the company continued to remain “open” during the pandemic since …
In its latest COVID-19 Automotive Market update, Canadian Black Book reveals its retention index declined an additional 3.20 points in May (close to April’s record decline), thanks in large part to lower consumer confidence and high levels of market uncertainty. …
Digital Air Strike COO Erica Sietsma discusses what the company is doing to help dealers on the digital front, to boost sales, including leveraging social media platforms like Facebook. She also talks about the COVID-19 face scarf they created …
Human Resources practices and policies are one of the many areas that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and those changes will be felt for many years to come. Data from the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) COVID-19 member …
Canadian auto dealer Publisher Niel Hiscox talks with Chuck Seguin, President of Seguin Advisory Services, about the factors that will impact vehicle sales in the coming months.
Kijiji Autos is waiving 30 per cent of its Listing & Feature monthly subscription fees in June — the latest move by the company to help support the dealer community in Canada amid COVID-19. Offers of savings were first announced …
With dealerships across Canada reopening and offering test drives again, Trackem GPS has developed a solution that could allow consumers to test drive a vehicle alone — without a sales representative onboard. Known as Trackem Test Driver, the solution would …
