Dealer Succession

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7 Considerations for Succession Planning for a Precision Farming Business

2017 Precision Farming Dealer Summit — Roundtable #12
The 2017 Precision Farming Dealer Summit succession planning roundtable in St. Louis “played” to a packed room. Moderated by Tim Norris, CEO, Ag Info Tech (2016 Most Valuable Dealership), Mount Vernon, Ohio, the participants included family-owned precision dealerships with a handful to employees all the way to businesses with hundreds of employees.
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Trial, Error and Growth: Cervus’ Lessons in Diversification

From agriculture to transportation, Cervus has diversified while remaining true to its core values and expertise.
With 64 locations, Cervus Equipment Corp. is the largest dealer group for John Deere and Peterbilt Motors across Canada. The company is a diversified equipment dealership group, with 35 of its dealerships in agriculture, 11 construction and industrial, and 18 in transportation. Of the 64 total dealerships, 6 are located in Australia, 9 in New Zealand and the rest in Canada.
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Making your Buy-Sell Agreement Relevant in Today’s Dealership Economy [Webinar]

If you are in business as a dealership, it should be a safe assumption that you have a Buy-Sell Agreement. But, has your Buy-Sell Agreement been stress-tested as much as your dealership has in the last few years? In this webinar, expert consultants in the farm equipment dealership industry, Cole Baker and Marc Johnson, shared their insights in assisting dealerships to update their agreements. This FREE webinar was brought to you by K•Coe Isom. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
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The Real World of ESOPs

From Acquisition to Owner Retirement

An employee stock ownership plan is providing a seamless succession strategy for Livingston Machinery.
It’s a tough situation laying in a hospital bed and realizing the business you’ve spent most of your life building might go away if you’re unable to return to work. In 2008, that was the reality for Earl Livingston of Livingston Machinery in Chickasha, Okla., after he suffered a stroke and wasn’t sure he’d make it back.
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Special Report: After the Ink Dries

Getting a Do-Over: What Dealers Would Do Differently After an Acquisition

Many dealers who have managed to successfully integrate an acquired dealership into their businesses have found some facet of process they would like to do over, given the opportunity. Here are some of do-overs shared in the Farm Equipment survey on strategies to integrate one dealership culture into another after an acquisition.
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