It's awards season in the automotive industry and Dean Cooley GM continues to make great waves across the country.
The dealership recently was awarded the General Motors President's Club award, which is given out to the top 50 dealerships throughout Canada. This is out of the more than 450 dealerships nationwide. Also recently, Bryan Byers was again in the Top 10 when it comes to vehicle sales just as he celebrated his 12th anniversary at the dealership.
Now Dean Cooley GM has been named a Top 5 finalist for the Canadian Automotive Dealer Association Laureate Award in Retail Operations.
Candidates are not able to nominate themselves which means Dean was nominated by his peers in the industry. Following a careful review, only 15 candidates' names are brought forward as finalists in three different categories.
In a press release, the president and CEO of the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association said every candidate is doing an incredible job.
"This process was designed so that only the top performers become finalists," said Tim Reuss. "This year's 15 finalists are an outstanding group of dealers."
As the team now waits to find out if they are the winning dealership, Dean knows this couldn't have been possible without the amazing team he has assembled.
"We have a great amount of experience here at the dealership and we have teammates that are so passionate and they care about their customers," said Cooley. "That's the difference for me, we have an incredible group of people that want the best for every customer. We feel very humbled to know that we have made the top 5, we are flattered."
Dean is also very proud of what everyone at the dealership has been able to accomplish.
"We have been in business for almost 30 years and we have never been nominated or made the top 5," offered Cooley. "It's a real feather in the cap for our entire team, everyone works so hard and everyone has one common goal and that's to make the customer happy and taken care of."
June 26 is when the winner of the award will be announced.
