How Top-Performing Dealers Prepare for a Down Turn

Farming and the farm equipment business are and always have been cyclical businesses. That’s sometimes easy to forget, especially coming off a few really good years like we are now. But the cycle will turn down and the only question is when.  Read more to find out...

How Top Dealers Compare Their Performance

A common misperception among dealers is that revenue and/or gross profit is the key to profitability.  Many believe that their main focus should be on increased sales and deriving higher gross margins from those sales.   We respectfully disagree.  Read more to find...

Challenges and Opportunities of Expansion

Several years back, a leading farm equipment manufacturer embarked on a program of “encouraging” farm equipment dealers to consolidate.  Theoretically, fewer dealerships would mean larger, multi-store organizations that cover bigger sales territories and...

Multi Client Agricultural Industry Study 2010

  Distribution Specialists to the Machinery Industry  April 2010 To:                   Presidents and CEOs of Specialized Farm Equipment Manufacturers Subject:          Your Distribution Strategy for the New Millennium Why you should participate in this multi-client...