ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – Steven Reuther, President of Reuther Ford, Inc., a Ford dealership in Arnold, Mo., was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from Missouri.
Reuther was chosen to represent the Missouri Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
“Growing up in the automotive business since I was 13 years old, and [spending] the last 46 years with my family, for the most part, laughing crying, sharing and supporting each other” has been the most rewarding aspect of his career, says Reuther.
After graduating from Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, MO, in 1968, Reuther attended Northeast Missouri State College (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, MO, for three semesters before being drafted in 1970. That September, he entered basic training at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, WA, and a year later, got assigned to Vung Tau, Vietnam, where he served in the Headquarters Company of the 765th Transportation Battalion until April, 1972.
After his honorable discharge that same month, Reuther returned to the family business where he had spent his teens working part-time from 1963-’70 as a porter for his father, Leo J. Reuther, at Reuther Jeep in Creve Coeur, MO. “I returned home and worked [full-time] for my father for the next 20 years, filling various positions until 1992,” says Reuther. “In the fall of that year, the family bought Reuther Ford, in Arnold, and I became the managing partner and President of the dealership.” He’s been there ever since.
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