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Risks: Bad faith and unfair dealings, Conflict of interest, Corporate stores get better deal than franchisees, Different deals for different dealers, Expropriation without compensation
http://www.wikidfranchise.org/20100527-gms-review
. But when it’s because the automaker is shedding a brand, “that’s an entirely different matter,” she quickly added.
“Those circumstances are entirely beyond [dealers’] control,” Kimmel said. “Through
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for sale. But since the termination notices went out to Canadian dealers in May, deals to sell Saturn and Saab have collapsed.
Saturn will be shut down and the future of Saab is in doubt, which means about
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The lawsuit, which is seeking $750 million in damages, claims GM Canada broke franchise laws by failing to give the dealers adequate information and putting "a tremendous amount of undue pressure
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cars, use its logo and promote its financing deals. The manufacturer sells vehicles to the dealers on a wholesale basis, along with a suggested markup, but the dealer doesn't always get what he wants
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in financial straits, and, in 2004, Culligan was on the auction block again.
That's when Culligan's dealers decided that this time things would be different. "We said, 'We're tired of going through
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deals for different dealers, Franchisor controls both wholesale costs and retail prices, Franchisor sells out, Opportunism: contract creates powers which are used to strip investor value during relationship, War of attrition, United States, 20091215 Gas stations
http://www.wikidfranchise.org/20091215-gas-stations
The Ford/CarPoint deal reflects a trend that some dealership franchise owners find disturbing: Big Auto ""gets"" the Internet, and that could cut dealers out of the loop.
eBusiness Journal
November
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minister who fought against big government his entire adult life decides to spend billions of dollars of public money saving the heart of the nation’s industrial output — the auto sector.
A deal is closing
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because of media, political or association involvement
Different deals for different dealers
Discount programs destroy retail margins but boost wholesale profits
Encroachment, internet
Eviction
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