ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – Richard Lovering, President of Lovering Volvo of Concord, a Volvo dealership in Concord, N.H., was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from New Hampshire.
Lovering was chosen to represent the New Hampshire Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
“congrats to our own Rich Lovering for winning Dealer of The Year in New Hampshire for Time Magazine!” So reads the tweet at 6:09 PM, December 1st, on Lovering Volvo’s Twitter page, which had 168 followers at last count. And they’re also on Facebook.
That kind of social media presence is little surprise given Lovering’s diverse background. After graduating from Raymond (NH) High School in 1974, he went on to study Business and Marketing while attending New Hampshire College in Manchester, NH. He then spent 1975-’79 in the United States Air Force, working as a Polish interpreter and interrogator. He joined defense contractor Sanders Associates in Nashua in 1979 and remained there until 1984. “In February of 1984,” Lovering explains, “I joined Colonial Imports to start a leasing and rental company. Within six months I was promoted to Used Car Manager and six months later promoted to General Manager.” Lovering remained with Colonial Imports until 1996.
Today, Lovering and his wife, Linda, who grew up in the car business, are the owners of three New Hampshire Lovering Volvo locations in Concord, Nashua and Meredith. They are both involved with the operations on a daily basis, with Linda serving as President in Nashua and Rich running the Concord and Meredith stores. Together, their three New Hampshire Volvo locations complete a tactical geographic plan that allows convenient accessibility to at least one location for all “Granite Staters.”
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