1.2 Marketing & Communication
1.7 Awards & Rankings

Consider the state of affairs when viewers tuned into the Super Bowl in February: Banks had failed, a stimulus package still hadn't been announced, and unemployment was surging toward 8%, up from 4.8% the year before.

1.1 Retailing & Sales

Chrysler Group dealers will require lots of capital in the coming years to improve operations. The company plans to help.

1.1 Retailing & Sales

For a long time, new-car dealers spent most of their time trying to increase their market share or simply increase sales in their communities.

1.4 Brands & Branding

Chrysler Group plans to finish the consolidation of its dealerships into three-brand stores by the end of 2011, Peter Grady, the automaker's vice president of network development and fleet, said Wednesday.

The worst of the automotive industry crisis is over, and world sales are set to stabilize next year, a Moody's analyst told the Reuters Auto Summit today.

1.1 Retailing & Sales

Chrysler will disappear completely from European car markets in 2011, company bosses have confirmed.

2.1 Appointments

Honda marketer Chris Brown, credited with being one of the architects of the revival in the brand’s marketing communications, is jumping ship to rival Hyundai Motors.

1.2 Marketing & Communication

An investigation into the cost-effectiveness of franchised dealer marketing activities illustrates the growing importance of the internet to successful lead generation.

1.2 Marketing & Communication

Hyundai is one of only three brands that increased U.S. sales through the first nine months of the year. And Hyundai's U.S. market share has risen more than any other brand's in 2009.

1.5 Market trends

There's a terrible secret that the car-makers don't really want you to know about, or at least properly appreciate.