The newest Byrider location opened this week in the Sunshine State. The franchise chain of buy-here, pay-here dealerships made its way into the South Florida market with a new store at 2008 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach, Fla. Byrider ... [Read More]

Agora Data recently received a compliance certification with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA’s) System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2. According to a news release, Agora Data’s SOC 2 Type II standard for information security was certified by ... [Read More]

Bankruptcy new filings were up year-over-year across Chapter 7, 11, 13, and 15 in January, according to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy. However, one expert said long-term trends remain “inconclusive.” Total U.S. bankruptcy filings in January came in at ... ... [Read More]

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, perhaps dealers might use that many to describe the state of their vehicle images used to highlight their inventory. Dealer Image Pro, a leader in professional photo, video and 360-degree software for automotive ... [Read More]

Coinciding with the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association and Buckeye Dealership Consulting announcing an integration of the NIADA 20 Groups with Buckeye’s Dealer Performance Groups, NIADA is welcoming back one of its previous moderators. According to another announcement from NIADA, ... [Read More]

NextGear Capital closed the opening month of the new year by announcing the promotion of three individuals from Cox Automotive to fill key roles on its client-facing team. The moves are aimed strengthen its partnerships and further its commitment to ... [Read More]

Immediately after the National Automobile Dealer Association wrapped up NADA Show 2023, the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association made a major move.   On Monday morning, NIADA and Buckeye Dealership Consulting announced an integration of the NIADA 20 Groups with ... [Read More]

This example shows how a former independent dealer was the perpetrator of a fraud scheme, rather than a victim. A news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California indicated Scott Radtke, of Clovis, Calif., was ... [Read More]

Cox Automotive acknowledged that by nearly every measure, 2022 was a difficult year for independent dealers, who were challenged by historically low vehicle inventories, high prices and the ongoing risk of an economic recession. With predicting the year ahead will ... [Read More]

If they haven’t already, buy-here, pay-here dealerships might be seeing more applicants arriving with an active bankruptcy on their credit file. According to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, individual Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings in 2022 increased 32% to 149,072 from ... [Read More]