Delaware
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ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – Larry Giacchino, President of Carman Chrysler Jeep Dodge, a Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealership in New Castle, Del., was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from Delaware.
Giacchino was chosen to represent the Delaware Automobile & Truck Dealers Association in the national competition--one of only 45 automobile dealers, from 17,000 nationwide, nominated for the 41st annual award. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA. A panel of faculty members from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan selects one finalist from each of the four NADA regions and one national Dealer of the Year.
Giacchino graduated from Cardinal O’Hara High School in Springfield, PA, in 1970, and then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1974. That same year, Giacchino began his fulltime career at the family dealership, Carman Lincoln Mercury, then in Wilmington.
“I had started working in the dealership as a lot boy, washing used cars and running cars to the DMV,” explains Giacchino, “I did full-time summer work on the lot, including detailing cars, stamping brochures.” But he had an epiphany. “I saw salesmen were earning $200-$500 per day selling two cars or more, and I told myself that I could do that and maybe even better.”
Over the years at his family’s dealership, Giacchino performed a lot better, proving himself time and again, as he rose through the ranks—from sales person to used car manager to new car manager to general sales manager, and, eventually, to president.
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