Compaq's excellent relationship with its dealer network is a significant factor in its success.
Back when GM controlled half of the U.S. auto market, its huge dealer network was a competitive advantage.
In the business only a year, Unified Marine says Web revenues have already surpassed those from its dealer network.
Penske was what the auto industry calls an independent distributor, a middleman between the factory and the dealer network.
When I asked Nikolaev about the problem of gangsters controlling his dealer network, he admitted that Avtovaz had a problem.
Saturn, and its strong, high-quality dealer network, is slated to become a sales distribution channel that is separate from General Motors.
Chrysler 's new management has figured out one thing: It can't fix the company without dramatically shrinking the carmaker's bloated dealer network.
Having a strong, profitable dealer network is a huge advantage for Toyota, and a huge disadvantage for domestics like Chrysler, he says.
One is the mutual fund, and one is a public limited partnership that we distribute to the general public through the broker-dealer network.
Victory has some 450 dealers in North America, many of whom also sell Polaris machines, but Indian will have a separate dealer network, Menneto said.
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Her first assignment is to launch the pint-size Fiat 500 minicar to a nation of SUV drivers through a dealer network that does not yet exist.
They support that with a dealer network, and they have a growing division that rebuilds the big machines, extending the lives of the equipment even further.
That means doing things it has been loath to do: cut wages and benefits for unionized workers, eliminate marginal brands like Pontiac, Saturn and Saab and slash its dealer network.
But building a western-style dealer network, as planned, looks a Himalayan task given today's typical salesroom: a squalid concrete bunker, featuring limited choice, surly service and machinegun-toting security guards.
Speculation has also swirled about whether the crisis will force GM to take severe actions once considered off-limits, like killing some of its brands or hacking its bloated dealer network.
"For every dealership that becomes available, I've got five dealers standing in the wings ready to take it over, " says Joseph Chrzanowski, GM's executive director of dealer network planning and investments.
Instead, it orchestrated what may be the most unlikely brand resurrection in marketing history by leveraging its powerful dealer network, rolling out splashy new tires and repositioning the brand slightly down-market.
Faisal also could offer the largest national dealer network.
The investors also will get Hummer's nationwide dealer network.
But the vast, overpopulated dealer network is scarcely budging.
Now, with a big new plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a revamped dealer network and the successful launch of the new Jetta, a family saloon, VW is back on a roll in America.
By collaborating with an established American carmaker, says Uludag, Chery will quickly learn lessons that otherwise would have taken years, like how to nurture a brand in the U.S. or build a dealer network.
Ford is currently in negotiations with potential dealers with a goal to establish an independent dealer network for the model that will offer a new level of personalized service not currently offered by rivals.
The new Cyber-shot compact cameras and compatible accessories including the new LCJ-THG, LCJ-WB and LCS-TWP camera covers will be available this month at Sony retail stores, online at www.store.sony.com and through authorized retailers throughout the Sony dealer network.
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The cameras and an expanded range of stylish accessories, including the new LCS-CS1, LCS-CS2, LCS-TWM and LCM-CSVH carrying cases, will be sold at Sony retail stores (www.store.sony.com) as well as other authorized retailers throughout the Sony dealer network.
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The impact was devastating: the dealer network shrunk by one-third in the first three months of 2012 and vehicles sales through its TrueCar.com network plunged 80 percent, from over 13, 000 per month at the end of 2011 to just 2, 000 a month in June.
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Nikolay Sobolev, Severstal's finance chief, adds that a further twist to the strategy is for Severstal to build a dealer network to sell high-margin services, such as adapting its vehicles for school and hospitals, providing full-service leasing arrangements and offering credit terms with local banks.
Even under a good scenario where you get federal financing, and you see a merger between two of the three entities and a preservation of a lot of models and a preservation of the design staffs to some degree, and a preservation of some of the dealer network.
But first Fiat needs to lay down roots in the U.S. The key was gaining access to Chrysler's 2, 300-dealer distribution network through the bankruptcy deal.
In addition it has a network of 1, 091 dealer outlets including 33 located outside North America.
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