Retail

Dealers United announced plans for expansion of its services as well as two new executives to lead those initiatives. The provider of digital marketing for dealers has added Dale Hewett as vice president of search, who will lead the company’s new search engine marketing and search engine optimization solutions, using organic and paid strategies. Hewett […] [Read More]

Federal standards and incentives aimed at preventing climate change and promoting the adoption of electric vehicles are on cruise control, but dealers are seeing their EV sales stall. According to dealers, their trade associations and industry analysts, consumers are put off by the prices of EVs — which are generally steeper than internal combustion engine vehicles. Additionally, vehicle buyers’ concerns about availability of charging stations and how far an EV can go on a single charge are sales barriers too, they agree. The federal push toward EVs is ... [Read More]

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]