Dealer Ops

When Your Controller Leaves You

What is the worst thing a dealer wants to endure in the dealership? Near the top of the list, just below a DMS conversion, is when your controller or office manager (if that’s your highest-level HR talent) gives notice.

MetroGistics Promotes Four Senior Executives

The vehicle-shipping company announced the following promotions: Jeremy Cope to executive vice president of operations and strategy; Martha Garcia-Perry to vice president of growth initiatives and integration; Dustin Ruch to vice president of business development; and Melissa Trautman to vice president of market strategy and integration.

Compact Cars Continue to Show Strength

For model years 2008-2014, compact cars realized a wholesale value decline of 0.11% — the lowest level among all small cars. Alternatively, prestige luxury cars and subcompact cars realized the highest wholesale-value declines, with depreciation of 0.69% and 0.64%, respectively.

Hyundai-Kia to Invest $3.1B in U.S.

Sister South Korean automakers Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. will invest $3.1 billion in the U.S. in the next five years and may build a new assembly plant in the United States, Hyundai Motor's president told reporters on Tuesday.

GM Invests $1B in U.S. Manufacturing

General Motors is investing $1 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations and will move production of axles for its pickup trucks from Mexico, the company announced on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

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