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America’s Car-Mart Opens 117th Dealership
Bentonville, Arkansas -- America's Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRMT) this week announced the opening of its 117th dealership. The dealership is located in Oxford, Mississippi. "Oxford is our fourth location to open in Mississippi. It is the type of community that we...
Cars.com Names Linda Bartman Chief Marketing Officer
CHICAGO – Cars.com, the premier online resource for buying and selling new and used cars, today announced that Linda Bartman, the site’s Vice President of Marketing, has been named Chief Marketing Officer. As CMO, Bartman is responsible for overseeing the company’s...
Timmy D. James joins OnlineDrive & ShowroomMagnet as Vice President of Sales
Houston, TX – OnlineDrive, the first company to focus specifically on inbound marketing and the conversion of consumer auto leads, as well as the owner of ShowroomMagnet, is pleased to announce Timmy D. James has joined the OnlineDrive team as the vice president of...
Automotive Institute Survey: Industry Challenges
While Automotive Industry Shows Signs of Recovery, OEMs and Suppliers Confirm Challenges Are Ahead By Way of Raw Material Costs, Natural Disasters and Emerging Technologies DETROIT—The automotive industry is showing signs of recovery, but automotive executives still...
Ford and Carfax Partner for Certified Pre-Owned Programs
DETROIT -- Ford and Carfax have agreed to provide Carfax Vehicle History Reports for the Ford and Lincoln Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) programs. Starting Jan. 1, 2013, Ford is committed to providing a free Carfax® Vehicle History Report™ for every Ford and Lincoln CPO...
Study Shows That Facebook Doesn’t Help Brands Drive Engagement; Superfans Do
BOULDER, CO -- Most brands understand the importance of an active, engaged Facebook community, but few brands know how to build one. Fan participation is never strong enough, so brands do what they think makes sense: focus on getting more fans, and posting more...
Asbury Automotive Group Appoints Michael S. Kearney Industry Veteran to Board of Directors
DULUTH, Ga. -- Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE: ABG), one of the largest automotive retail and service companies in the U.S., today announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Michael S. Kearney has been appointed to its Board of Directors. With...
Auto Industry Veteran Joins Forces With 3 Birds Marketing
Barron Meade hired to connect progressive auto executives with company's innovative marketing software and services Chapel Hill, NC -- 3 Birds Marketing, a software developer offering an integrated digital marketing platform and professional services to the automotive...
Ally Financial Announces Agreement to Sell Mexican Insurance Business
First transaction toward strategic plans to pursue alternatives for international businesses DETROIT -- Ally Financial Inc. (Ally) announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its Mexican insurance business, ABA Seguros, to the ACE Group, one of the world's...
Car Buying—and Selling—Just Got Easier; CarPlatter.com’s Innovative Online Technology is Changing the Face of an Industry
With its launch earlier this month, http://www.CarPlatter.com introduced a groundbreaking approach that takes the negotiating struggle out of purchasing a new car by allowing car shoppers to “privately” build their dream car online and receive “anonymous” dealer...
VP Dealer Development at TrueCar Discusses How To Find the Missing Monetization from your Current Sources of Traffic
Ask any dealer or manager to tell you what they do and the answer you likely will get is they sell cars, or they sell and service cars. If you also ask them to tell you metrics on selling and service they can give you close rates, profit, hours per RO, and many more....
RyanTech Expert Discusses How To Get your HEAD in the CLOUD
There are a growing number of discussions about the “cloud” and Kevin McMillen, president and founder of RyanTech, is going to uncover the six most important facts about cloud technology for dealers and managers. He’ll discuss compliance, productivity, email, the...
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