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Shawn Leibold Selected to Fill STAR Board of Directors Seat

AutoSuccessOnline

The Reynolds and Reynolds company announced Shawn Leibold, director of industry relations for Reynolds, was selected in a special election to fill a vacant seat on the board of directors for the Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR), the leading automotive IT standards organization.

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Mazda Opens 300th Open-Concept Dealership

AutoSuccessOnline

Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) has opened its 300 th Retail Evolution (RE) dealership with Luther Mazda in Kansas City, Missouri. Across our Retail Evolution locations, dealer owner loyalty is up 4.3 ” A key element of Mazda’s long-term business strategy in the U.S. percentage points.”

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Reynolds’ Shawn Leibold fills vacant seat on STAR board

Canadian Auto Dealer

Shawn Leibold, Director of Industry Relations for Reynolds and Reynolds, was recently selected by the company to fill a vacant seat on the board of directors for the Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR). He will finish the remaining one-year term from the original three-year one for his seat. “We

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Peoples Group reports drop in turnover and pre-tax profits

Motor Trader

He said: “I am a director of the Retail Automotive Alliance and we know from some of the discussions there that dealers are not doing the numbers that they had anticipated.” We had a leap of faith, we felt they were the right ones to deal with based on what we were going to lose in terms of product lineup.

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Stuck In Traffic: Why Quick Fixes Are Stalling Your Store’s Growth in a Competitive Market

AutoSuccessOnline

Many of us are reacting, not acting, with a long-term plan based on the information available to us. Worse, we’re making decisions with long-term impacts in reaction to the last 45 to 90 days of business. Long-term plans can come in many forms. Adding a chat or digital retailing solution to your site? Increase it where?

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The current state of automotive dealership M&A: Focusing on performance optimization

Auto Remarketing

What dealer principals should be focused on — is what they can control. Strategies for performance optimization To increase the value of a dealership, principals should consider how to best leverage and optimize their capital – human, financial, relational, and intellectual – to maximize the sale price when it’s time to transact.

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COMMENTARY: 9 places where dealers can find cost savings & margin preservation

Auto Remarketing

As one dealer principal told me while I was gathering facts and information for this article: “When we are going through a phase with margin compression like we are now — we look at EVERY expense to see, where we can reduce or cut costs.” The other side of the scale — or the equation — is costs.

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