ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – Joe Goodman III, Dealer/General Manager of Goodman Chevrolet-Cadillac-Nissan Inc., a Chevrolet, Cadillac and Nissan dealership in Glasgow, Ky., was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from Kentucky.
Goodman was chosen to represent the Kentucky Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
“After practicing pharmacy for almost five years, in late 1976, I began to realize that I wasn't happy and that I should think about doing something else,” says Goodman.
So, he got in touch with his father and younger brother, partners in a Glasgow, KY, dealership, and the rest, as they say, is history; Goodman’s 90-year-old father, Joe L. Goodman Jr., remains his co-owner to this day.
Goodman graduated from Glasgow High School in 1964, attended Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green from ’64 to ’68, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy in Atlanta, GA, in 1971. That set Goodman on a path of pharmacy relief work, serving as an independent contractor for four Kentucky drug stores for several years. He also held a full-time position from 1974 to ’77, but that’s when he’d had enough, joining his father and brother as a salesman in March of that year. “They told me they were expanding their automobile business, so I was able to convince them to hire me as a salesman.”
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