SPONSORED EPISODE: Greenville Auto Auction Celebrates 16 Years—A look back and a look ahead
On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction. The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, ... Listen Here
Wide-ranging car-business conversation with Lotlinx chairman and CEO Len Short
Lotlinx chairman and CEO Len Short firmly believes car dealers are the most resilient operators in any business. During this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Short explained why he is anticipating dealers showing that resilience again because it’s needed ... Listen Here
Path to delivering education in Spanish with Ignite Dealer Compliance Group
Steve Levine has dozens of dealer clients with Spanish as their native language. Those dealers also have hundreds of Hispanic customers who cannot speak or understand English. To fill compliance and training gaps created by language challenges, the owner of ... Listen Here
Prices in the auction lanes reflecting consistent weekly declines
Sarah Rubenoff, Correspondent
Similar to the week before, wholesale vehicle prices last week declined on average by 0.28%. That’s according to Canadian Black Book, which tracks wholesale market changes week by week. Truck and SUV segments saw a more significant dip of 0.44%, ... [Read More]
AFC chooses past OEM exec to run AFC Canadian field ops
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
OPENLANE subsidiary AFC has hired longtime automaker executive Robert Staffieri as its new regional director of Canada, where he will be responsible for overseeing the company’s field operations in the country. This includes sales, business development and customer success. “Robert ... [Read More]
Inspection platform PAVE hires 4 new machine learning experts
Sarah Rubenoff, Correspondent
Vehicle inspection platform PAVE is focusing on artificial intelligence and the role it plays in the company’s success. With that in mind, PAVE has hired four new machine learning experts to boost its AI team. These new recruits were all ... [Read More]
OpenRoad launches philanthropic arm to support local communities
Sarah Rubenoff, Correspondent
OpenRoad Auto Group has launched a philanthropic non-profit organization, OpenRoad Foundation, which has been a long-time dream of CEO Christian Chia, who is also the OpenRoad Foundation’s founding board of director. The foundation is designed to support the development of ... [Read More]
Dealers reap benefits of stable market, used demand and soaring MSRPs
Sarah Rubenoff, Correspondent
Canadian Black Book released its Used Vehicle Retention Index for June, which decreased 0.2% from May and declined 1.76% year-over-year to sit at 158.5 points. “The Canadian wholesale market continues to be relatively stable this year without the wild swings ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Sergey Barandich of Redline Auto Sales
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
In this edition of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, we conclude our series of episodes from the Canada’s Used Car Week Podcast Stage with a conversation between Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby and Redline Auto Sales general manager Sergey ... [Read More]
Dilawri opens sustainable, rebranded Volvo store in British Columbia
Sarah Rubenoff, Correspondent
Dilawri Group opened the doors to its new, rebranded Volvo Canada store in Richmond, British Columbia. Volvo Cars Richmond, formerly known as Volvo of Vancouver, is located at 338-10700 Cambie Road. But the dealer group said this is more than ... [Read More]
Carbeeza brings new AI-powered lead enhancement platform to market
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Carebeeza, a Canadian software company focused on the auto industry, has debuted a new lead enhancement tool in Canada and the U.S. called UltraLead. Artificial intelligence is the name of the game for UltraLead, which utilizes proprietary AI to ramp ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Steven Pigozzo of Scuderia Coaching
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Next up on our series from the podcast stage at Canada’s Used Car Week last month is a conversation with Steven Pigozzo of Scuderia Coaching. Pigozzo talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about his journey in automotive ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Tatiana Siuchak of VW Credit Canada
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Next up on our series from the podcast stage at Canada’s Used Car Week last month is a conversation with Tatiana Siuchak, technical product manager at VW Credit Canada and one of Auto Remarketing Canada’s 2023 “Remarketing’s Under 40” honorees. ... [Read More]
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