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Economic Impact Study

The automotive industry is a major industrial and economic force worldwide.  Even locally, new vehicle dealerships are making a huge economic impact.  With results calculated from surveys by both the GCADA and the Ohio Auto Dealers Association, an “Economic Impact Study” was created for franchised new vehicle dealerships in the Cincinnati Region (Hamilton, Butler, Warren, […]

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Summertime must be the right time

Summer has heated up and gotten off to a great start for the auto industry!  New car sales in the U.S. rose during the month of June, even after analysts had predicted otherwise.  Many figured that carmakers wouldn’t get off to a good start for the summer, since June had fewer selling days than May, […]

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E-Z baby saver invented by boy to save children’s lives

Andrew Pelham, an 11 year old boy from Brentwood, Tennessee is a young inventor already taking strides to saving lives.  He created what he calls the E-Z Baby Saver, a device designed to remind parents that their child is in the backseat, so they won’t leave him/her in the dangerous heat.  What enticed Andrew to […]

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Benefits of franchised automobile dealers

The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has launched a new initiative called “Get the Facts”, promoting the benefits of franchised automobile dealers.  The initiative highlights four central benefits of being a franchised dealer, which includes: price competition, consumer safety, local economic benefits, and an added value.  “NADA’s efforts will set the record straight about the […]

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Plate wins contest for Cleves couple

Winning is an action known well by a couple from Cleves, Ohio.  Doug and Julie Menkhaus are winners of this quarter’s Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ “What’s on your Plate?” contest.  The couple happen to be owners of one of the most iconic cars to ever grace a movie screen, the DeLorean DMC-12, made famous […]

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“It’s something needed in the U.S.”: encouraged bystander CPR

A new study from Denmark shows an increase in the number of people who survive cardiac arrest when the nation encouraged bystanders to step in and perform CPR.  After analyzing data from over 19,000 people who went into cardiac arrest someplace other than a hospital between June 2001 and December 2010, researchers found that the […]

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National CPR/AED Week is upon us!

Did you know? That 4 out of 5 cardiac arrests take place at home.  But, that effectively performed CPR can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival? To promote the importance of this life saving skill set, the Greater Cincinnati Automobile Dealers Association (GCADA) in partnership with the American Red Cross, is promoting National […]

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Love for a Jeep That Went to War

“I can’t tell you the number of times that a veteran has come up to me and said, ‘My Goodness, I haven’t ridden in one of those since 1945.’ ” David Cadorette, a business consultant and vice president of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association from Amherst, N.H., sat on his 1942 Jeep and told the […]

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Fitzgerald Auto Malls protects 45,000 children on the road

Yesterday, Thursday, May 15th marked a very special day for one Maryland-based dealership, Fitzgerald Auto Malls, as they reached a milestone after installing and inspecting their 45,000th child safety seat since its program began in 1999.  The Fitzgerald Child Car Seat Inspection Program was started in 1999 after CEO, Jack Fitzgerald learned the dangers of […]

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Summer never felt so good

Jeep is coming back this summer, and they’re bringing the late King of Pop Music with them!  It’s no secret that the summer is an important time of year for Jeep, and they’re launching a new marketing effort that will feature the late Michael Jackson’s unreleased single, Love Never Felt So Good.   Olivier François, Chief […]

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