Retail

Dealership buy-sell advisory firm Haig Partners has named longtime auto industry executive Dave Rowe as its new managing director. The company said Rowe will serve clients nationwide, but will focus primarily on Texas and other states in the Central and Southwest regions. Rowe said in a news release that he has always admired Haig Partners […] [Read More]

We continue our series on the Auto Remarketing Podcast highlighting some of the panels and presentations from Used Car Week 2023. This episode features a keynote presentation from Dealer Training Tuesday. Automotive Training Network CEO Mark Gilbert orchestrated a session titled, “How to Manage Different Personalities As You Do Business.” Listen to the episode in […] [Read More]

The final tally didn’t break the record set in 2019 or match the rebound year of 2021, but certified pre-owned vehicle sales for 2023 were up nearly 7% and represented one of the strongest years ever for the CPO market. That’s according to Motor Intelligence data provided to Auto Remarketing, which shows there were approximately […] [Read More]

Longtime automotive marketing Shelley Washburn has joined Group 1 Automotive, operator of 199 dealerships in the U.S. and U.K., as vice president of marketing and chief marketing officer. Washburn’s automotive marketing and retail experience covers 30 years, most recently with automotive digital marketing firms Gulf States Marketing as president and Force Marketing as a strategic […] [Read More]

We continue our series on the Auto Remarketing Podcast highlighting some of the panels and presentations from Used Car Week 2023. This episode features a keynote presentation by Laurie Foster of Foster Strategies Group titled, “How to Optimize, Maximize and Monetize Your Dealer-Provider Partnerships.” Listen to the episode in the window below. [Read More]

automotiveMastermind, part of S&P Global Mobility and a provider of data and technology, announced “significant enhancements” to its proprietary Mastermind technology. The company has added EV Behavior Driver, Service Portfolio and Service Portfolio Insights to Mastermind, which is designed to harness the power of predictive analytics to anticipate customer preferences, enabling dealers to “redefine automotive […] [Read More]

WarrCloud has joined with the American International Automobile Dealers Association as an affinity partner, offering AIADA members its artificial intelligence-driven software to automate the warranty claims process. The manual claims process costs dealers up to 12 percent of the gross profit from warranty revenue, according to estimates. Warrcloud’s software is designed to give dealers quicker […] [Read More]

Sonic Automotive, one of the nation’s largest automotive retailers, has promoted longtime vice president of human resources Harry Harden to chief human resources officer. Harden replaces Angela Broadway, Sonic’s first CHRO, who retired Dec. 31. Harden served as Sonic’s human resources VP for 14 years beginning in 2001, building and leading the company’s first human […] [Read More]

We continue our series on the Auto Remarketing Podcast highlighting some of the panels and presentations from Used Car Week 2023. This episode features another part of Dealer Training Tuesday, as Lotpop’s Jasen Rice gave a presentation titled, “Inventory Management Should Be Lead Management.” Listen to the episode in the window below. [Read More]

One of America’s oldest car dealerships has changed hands. Smart Toyota in Madison, Wisc., founded in 1908 as Smart Motors, was acquired by Baxter Auto Group from president and CEO J.R. Smart. The sale ends 115 years of ownership by the Smart family, encompassing three generations and 28 franchises. “I celebrated my 52nd anniversary at […] [Read More]