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2016 Dealership of the Year Video Series: Van Wall Equipment

Service-First Mentality Makes Van Wall Equipment Stand Out

July 18, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Department Management
A service-first mentality through such programs as the preventative maintenance program and other efforts make Van Wall Equipment stand out among its competitors. Chad Stoline, corporate service manager for Van Wall Equipment, shares that that service-first backbone has been crucial to Van Wall’s success during the current downturn in the ag economy. Van Wall Equipment earned top honors in Farm Equipment's 2016 Dealership of the Year program.
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2016 Dealership of the Year Video Series: Van Wall Equipment

Monthly Management Meetings Bring the Team Together

July 18, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Department Management
The corporate management team at Van Wall Equipment gets together on a monthly basis to review each location’s performance. Each location — and each department within each store — is given a monthly budget. Each month the management team looks at how they did compared to the budget and compared the prior year. But as the dealership has grown, management has discovered that they need to look at more than just the numbers. Matt Van Houweling, business development manager for Van Wall, talks about those meetings. Van Wall Equipment earned top honors in Farm Equipment's 2016 Dealership of the Year program.
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Special Report: After the Ink Dries

Getting a Do-Over: What Dealers Would Do Differently After an Acquisition

By Dave Kanicki posted on June 11, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Dealer Succession
Many dealers who have managed to successfully integrate an acquired dealership into their businesses have found some facet of process they would like to do over, given the opportunity. Here are some of do-overs shared in the Farm Equipment survey on strategies to integrate one dealership culture into another after an acquisition.
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Special Report: After the Ink Dries

One Dealership’s ‘Acquisition Journal’

New manager Davin Peterson recalls the first few months following an acquisition — in which he was getting to know both parties.
By Mike Lessiter posted on June 11, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance
Davin Peterson joined California-based Kern Machinery Inc. (KMI) in April 2015 in advance of the acquisition of Hollingsworth Inc., a 3-store John Deere dealer group with stores in Ontario and Burns, Ore., and Weiser, Idaho, that would be renamed Camp Equipment.
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