Idaho
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ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – Kim Hansen, Dealer of Kim Hansen Chevrolet, a Chevrolet dealership in Burley, Idaho, was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from Idaho.
Hansen was chosen to represent the Idaho Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
“The automobile business gives an opportunity to interact with the consumer perhaps more than any other business because of the trade aspect,” says Hansen. “It is this aspect of the business that I like most—making new friends on a daily basis.”
Hansen graduated from Box Elder High School in Brigham City, UT, in 1970, and then earned Bachelor of Science degrees in both Finance and Business Management at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1974. But Hansen grew up working in his father's GM dealership in Brigham City, where he began by reconditioning used cars and changing tires. Through high school and college, he worked in nearly every department in the dealership, including the service, parts and sales departments.
After college, Hansen joined the family dealership full-time, learning the car business inside and out from his father, K.V. Hansen. In 1976, he attended GM’s Merchandising and Management (Dealer Sons) School. And just three years after his graduation from the U. of U., Kim Hansen Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Buick began when Hansen purchased the Soda Springs, Idaho, dealership at age 25, making him one of the youngest GM auto franchisees.
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