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Retail automotive industry veteran Ron Fortt announced the launch of Automotive Retail Solutions, an independent consulting and training company providing products and services to the automotive industry.

Tags: Automotive Retail Solutions, business development center, extended warranties, parts and service, service contracts, training, windshield protection

The magazine has posted new video footage of the five F&Idol category winners running through their product pitches.

Tags: F&I products, GAP, key replacement, service contracts, tire and wheel, training, vehicle theft

Readers of F&I and Showroom voted Greg Paul “GP” Anderson the winner of the magazine’s inaugural F&Idol contest. The F&I manager for Thielen Motors, Park Rapids, Minn., was honored during a special ceremony at the publication’s Industry Summit 2011.

Tags: FandIdol, GAP, Industry Summit 2011, key replacement, service contracts, tire and wheel, training, vehicle theft

EasyCare and Jeff Cowan have partnered to bring his Pro Talk sales training and consulting to more than 2,000 EasyCare dealers across the country.

Tags: EasyCare, parts and service, service contracts, training

Mobile Productivity Inc. (MPi), a provider of service department solutions, released a free eBook called, “Key Secrets to Customer Pay Success,” which highlights how dealers use technology and better processes to increase their fixed-operations profits.

Tags: fixed operations, parts and service, service contracts, training

Service Payment Plan Inc. (SPP) introduced SPP University, an online resource that provides F&I professionals with access to sales training that instructs them how to sell vehicle service contract payment plans.

Tags: payment plan, service contracts