ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – John Emerson, President of Emerson Chevrolet, a Chevrolet dealership in Auburn, Maine, was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from Maine.
Emerson was chosen to represent the Maine Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
Asked about his career’s greatest reward, Emerson says, “Working with employees who became like family through the years, serving customers who became like family through the years, being lucky enough to be able to give back to my community.”
Emerson graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn, ME, in 1974, and then earned an Associate degree in Automotive Marketing at Northwood University in Midland, MI, in 1979. That same year, Emerson began his fulltime career in sales at Louis Chevrolet in Lewiston. The dealership moved to Auburn in 1981, and the name was changed to Emerson Chevrolet in 2002. In the 1990s and 2000s, Emerson’s dealership was voted "Best Place to Buy" several times by the local Chamber of Commerce. In 1999, he received the "Economic Development Achievers Award" from the Lewiston-Auburn Chamber of Commerce.
But Emerson actually got his start in the dealership world as a youngster, washing cars at Louis Chevy during junior high. In fact, he began selling vehicles on a part-time basis while in high school and college both at a Datsun/Honda motorcycle dealership in Lewiston and at Louis Chevy, between semesters of college.
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