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Source: Motor Age

Car Care Month helps build long-lasting relationships

March 5, 2010

Getting the preventive maintenance message out to people and forming lasting customer relationships is the ultimate goal no matter where the event takes place for shops across the country during National Car Care Month, slated once again for April.

Source: Motor Age

Where's the beef? It's at Les Schwab's for promotional giveaway campaign

February 16, 2010

Every February for the last 47 years, drivers throughout the Northwest have headed to Les Schwab Tire Centers for the chain?s ?Free Beef? promotion.

Source: Motor Age

Zurich tells NADA Convention attendees how to handle recalls

February 15, 2010

ORLANDO ? Toyota recalls have been filling news reports lately, and Honda has had its share of time in the news spotlight. On the show floor of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention in Orlando, Zurich shared information with clients and potential customers on responding to automobile safety recalls.

Source: Motor Age

CP Handheld, AutoNation announce agreement at NADA Convention

February 15, 2010

ORLANDO ? CP Handheld is taking its handheld technologies to one major company?s back office, reaching an agreement with AutoNation. Under the new agreement, CP Handheld will provide automated inventory, floor plan and RDR reconciliation tools at its Shared Service Center in Dallas. AutoNation?s Shared Service Center model allows it to reduce costs by consolidating a variety of account reconciliations that traditionally are performed at the dealership level.

Source: Motor Age

Dealer profits made in service centers, though new car sales could near 12 million

February 14, 2010

ORLANDO ? While the aftermarket looks favorably on high mileage vehicles for more opportunities for service, the dealership market also is taking a closer, more eager look at this area of the market at a time when profits are made in the service bays not the lots.

Source: Motor Age

Log on and vote for ASA Board of Directors

January 6, 2010

Elections for the 2010 Automotive Service Association (ASA) national board of directors are being held now through Feb. 28.

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