ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – Hank Sitton, President of Sitton Buick Pontiac GMC Saab, a Buick, Pontiac, GMC and Saab dealership in Greenville, S.C., was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from South Carolina.
Sitton was chosen to represent the South Carolina Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
“I am a third generation dealer,” says Sitton, “Our dealership was started in 1943 by my grandfather, J. H. Sitton Sr., and I began working there part-time during high school.”
Sitton graduated from The McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN, in 1970, and then earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1975.
The next year, Sitton began working fulltime at his family’s Sitton Buick Pontiac GMC Saab dealership in Greenville, SC, starting off in fixed operations as a service advisor. And he’s been at the dealership ever since. He soon moved on to the Parts Department, working in counter sales. “After several years,” Sitton says, “I moved to the variable operations working first in sales and leasing, then as the finance and insurance manager, sales manager, and, eventually, I became the dealer in 1989.” Today, Sitton’s wife, Karen, works as the dealership’s Customer Satisfaction Manager, while their daughter, Nicole, works in the accounting office. Sitton spent 14 years on the board of the South Carolina Automobile Dealers Association, serving as President in 2002.
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