Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association

The Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association, or MADA as we MADA has been around since 1917, so we're over 100 years old and we've been fighting for dealers, especially our franc The dealers have a very odd relations They love selling cars. They love their brands. But the manufacturers often want to get into their business. So there's kind of a push-pull going on between the dealers and the factories, and we're here to even that relations We help our members primarily by advocating at the state capitol. We have our own franc We go in and we speak to the capitol and the policy makers and law makers with one voice. We take 365 franc We have a very large economic footprint in t We have $14 billion in sales. We employ over 20,000 people in t We pay, of course, local property taxes, but we support a lot of local charities. So we come in with all of that muscle, if you will, and talk to legislators about t I'most proud of the growth we've had in the last few years. We're constantly searc We've been able to add some new services that nobody ever thought possible. We've got business units that are growing very fast. Every year we try and update the laws as business changes. T Manufacturers were underpaying the dealers for what they did to conduct warranty and recall work. So, for instance, they would pay the dealers for half an hour of work, when in fact the work took an hour and a half. And that is hard on the technicians doing the work, and hard on the dealers who have to pay the technicians. We even that out t What I'm passionate about is advocating for the dealers. The t When the members say nice job or a good job after a long, hard legislative session, and we've been able to accomplish somet We're small, but t