https://www.farm-equipment.com/rss en-us The 12-part 2022 Farm Equipment Dealership of the Year video series features First Choice Farm Lawn and Riechmann Bros. First Choice Farm Lawn was selected as the Greater than $100 Million Dealership Winner while Riechmann Bros. was selected as the Less than $100 Million Dealership Winner. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/20634 Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:50:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/20634-dealership-of-the-year-2022-winners-sneak-peek Upon graduating from the Univ. Tennessee at Martin in 2009, Ron Parks got a job working for Danny Montgomery, who owned a Kubota dealership in Union City, Tenn. Starting off in the parts department, Ron quickly worked his way up into a sales and management role. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/20590 Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:42:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/20590-dealership-of-the-year-first-choice-farm-lawn-video-series First-Choice-Farm-and-Lawn_Group.jpg First Choice Farm & Lawn owners Don (left) and Ron (right) Parks bought the dealership in 2013 and have grown the business to 6 stores and $88 million in revenue for 2021. Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners CEO Ted Briscoe says the ownership groups worked together to identify all the core business processes and each shared how they did it, then they picked the processes that made the most sense, were the most scalable and would be most appropriate for the size of the merged business. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19477 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:20:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19477-sydenstricker-nobbe-partners-manage-smooth-merger CEO Ted Briscoe shares what it means to him to have SN Partners named Farm Equipment\'s 2021 Dealership of the Year. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19486 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:54:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19486-ted-briscoe-reacts-to-sydenstricker-nobbe-partners-being-named-dealership-of-the-year When it comes to continuing to grow the dealership group, CEO Ted Briscoe says “breakout opportunities” — or business diversification — is the cheapest way for Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners to grow and will have a greater ROI than say going out and buying a store that’s doing $35 million in revenue. Briscoe explains these “breakout opportunities” as ways to change the slope of the curve outside of SNP’s traditional, core Deere business. Two examples of this would be SNP’s Commercial Application Division (CAD) and its Compact Construction Division. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19485 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:51:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19485-sydenstricker-nobbe-partners-grows-through-diversifying-the-business Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners CEO Ted Briscoe explains why the dealership has moved toward the “specialist” format as a way to elevate the precision knowledge of all the dealership’s staff. The dealership developed a program to run parallel to the mainstreaming process, through which the dealership can have a core group of precision experts with two key focuses: changing the narrative on precision over the next 3-5 years from focusing on pricing to the value the technology brings and consolidating product knowledge via “specialists” in certain categories of equipment. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19484 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:49:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19484-sydenstricker-nobbe-partners-approach-to-mainstreaming-precision-ag To help keep a local feel to such a large organization, Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners has divided its 27 locations into 4 divisions — Missouri West, Missouri East, Metro and Illinois. Each division has about 7 stores and does around $150 million in business. Likewise, each division has a general manager and divisional staff who serve as the “face of SNP” in those local communities. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19483 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:46:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19483-sydenstricker-nobbe-partners-organizes-stores-into-regional-divisions As Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners looks ahead in growing its business, it is looking to improve its aftermarket revenue to account for 30% of its revenue mix. CEO Briscoe says they will work to do this through centralized processes and through exploring creating its own technician training program to keep a steady stream of technicians coming into the business. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19482 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:43:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19482-sydenstricker-nobbe-partners-focuses-on-growing-aftermarket-business Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners opened SNP Express on April 15, 2021. The store has two salespeople and is only focused on retail sales of compact utility tractors and Gators. The store is open Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. – very different from the core ag locations. While customers can drop equipment off for service, it won’t be done at the Express store, explains CEO Ted Briscoe. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19481 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:38:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19481-sydenstricker-nobbe-partners-opens-express-store-for-small-tractor-market Bringing two strong family businesses together can be messy. Trying to unite two cultures and two ways of operating the business into one isn’t without its challenges. But, for Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners (formed in January 2020 through the merger of Sydenstricker Implement Co. and Wm. Nobbe & Co.), year one of the merger proved not only to be a success but the team got there with little to no drama. http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19467 Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:18:00 -0400 https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/19467-dealership-of-the-year-sydenstricker-nobbe-parters-video-series Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners leadership group Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners leadership group includes (front l-r) Tom Nobbe (key advisor), George Obernagel (Board of Directors), Arthur Basnett (VP Construction Division), Adam Bunting (Illinois East Division GM), Jason Orr (CFO), Scott Brees (Missouri West Division GM), Kevin Cobb (Missouri East Division GM), Chad Schaffter (Aftermarket Product Manager), Eddie Sydenstricker (key advisor), Ben Poletti (Metro Division GM), Brad Nobbe (Production Specialist Product Manager), Kim Sydenstricker (Public Relations), (back l-r) Greg Gabriel (New Channels), Alan Utterback (Complete Goods Product Manager), Jared Nobbe (Centralized Services), Chad Mallet (VP Commercial Application), Lee Ann Sydenstricker (VP of Marketing), Ted Briscoe (CEO) and Andrew Norris (Human Resources).