Keith Kreps, COO, 21st Century Equipment, previews his upcoming Dealership Minds Summit presentation with technology editor Noah Newman. Kreps will be participating in a dealer-to-dealer panel in which 3 dealerships share how they updated their organizational structures and management layers after expansion.

As 21st Century prepared for a 2022 merger with a neighboring dealer, it consolidated 3 districts of 5-6 stores to 2 regions of 8 stores each. At the same time, the John Deere group moved from the traditional store manager model to a territory structure.

In 2023 when 21st Century merged with 4Rivers Ag, it created a 3rd region with those 10 stores. Five of the locations are now managed in the same territory manager model as 21st Century’s legacy stores, but the other 5 are primarily small ag and turf locations where a traditional store manager structure was maintained.

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The Dealership Minds Summit features collaborative, dealer-to-dealer learning over a 2-day, knowledge-packed agenda that is guaranteed to give you authoritative strategies from the most progressive minds at farm equipment dealers. Join the top farm equipment dealerships from around North America on August 6-7, 2024 in Madison, Wis., for two days of unrivaled learning and networking. Limited seats available.

Title Sponsors for the 2024 event are AgDirect, Machinery Scope, IronSolutions by Fusable, AXON, Dealer Information Systems Corporation (DIS), TractorHouse, VitalEdge Technologies, Basic Software Systems, Associated Equipment Distributors (AED), AgGuard, Geringhoff, PTx Trimble, Agri Spray Drones, and LST Group.