Sales & Variable OPS
GM Pledges to Promote Workplace Electric Vehicle Charging
WASHINGTON – General Motors, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, is joining 12 other companies as founding Partners of the DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge. The goal is to increase the number of employers with workplace charging tenfold within five...
NCM® Awards Its First NAMAD Scholarship in Support of Minority-Owned Auto Dealers
Overland Park, KS - NCM Associates (www.ncm20.com), a leading provider of automotive 20 group, retail operations consulting, training, and operations Benchmark® analysis services to franchised and independent auto dealers, today announced it has awarded its first...
Are You Making It Easy for Customers to Find your Dealership Online?
It’s hard to argue that the Internet has created a more educated automotive customer. But while some see challenges in the new paradigm, savvy marketers realize that the Internet also has launched many proven ways to engage, attract, and retain customers like never...
Liberty Buick Increases New Sales 21% and Pre-Owned Sales 18% Year over Year
Dealers share many ongoing challenges like how to effectively reach the right customers with the right message, bring those customers into their showrooms and service bays, and keep them coming back again and again. As consumer shopping habits have shifted in recent...
Shoppers Not Deterred By Toyota Recalls
According to Forbes, shoppers are not deterred by recent Toyota recalls. Just as Toyota Motor returned to the top spot among automakers worldwide, the company issued another recall, this time involving 752,000 Corollas and 270,000 Lexus IS vehicles in the United...
GM Investing $200 Million to Expand Powertrain Engineering
PONTIAC, MI – General Motors will invest $200 million into its Global Powertrain Engineering Headquarters to build a new 138,000 sq.-ft. test wing, which is expected to be completed during the second half of 2014. The plan is part of GM’s previously announced...
Simon Property Group Unveils ‘Plug-in Ecosystem’ at Clay Terrace, a First-Of-Its-Kind Energy Storage and Vehicle Charging System
CARMEL, IN - Shoppers at Clay Terrace in Carmel, Ind. not only can choose from an exciting array of stores and restaurants, but now they also have the opportunity to minimize their carbon footprint. Simon Property Group, Toshiba Corporation, Duke Energy, ITOCHU...
Nissan Debuts Efficient New Smyrna Paint Plant
FRANKLIN, TN – With the recent additions of the Infiniti JX and Nissan LEAF and the future addition of the Nissan Rogue to its vehicle assembly lines in Smyrna, Tenn., the company today announced the opening of its most advanced paint plant in the world, as a black...
Interview with David Kelley, GM & Partner, Nissan of McKinney
David Kelley, GM and partner at Nissan of McKinney, is a man on the fast track. In the last quarter of 2012, Nissan of McKinney’s Internet sales, which had accounted for 39% of the dealership’s business, increased dramatically month over month to the point where they...
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