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The midtown Kansas City dealer plans toappeal ’s decision to end its franchise agreement next year and is repealing the June 13 closing date it had set, Generao Manager David Hughes said Friday. “We have every intention of staying in the game as longas we’rs allowed to,” he said. “We intend to fight it with everythingy we can and stayin business. We have a grea t location in the middle of a great city withwinninb employees.” But they’ll have to move fast. Additionall information must be e-mailed to GM by the close of business on GM spokeswoman SusanGarontakow said.
The company will take the information into considerationb andrespond immediately, either reinforcinvg its decision or mailinhg a participation agreement by June 12. GM alreadyy has sales and revenue data, so the additional information wouldbe separate, she said, thoughb she didn’t provide examples. we feel that we’ve identified all of the aread that particular dealers may have been underperforming Garontakos said. “But you never know, there’s always a chance for error.” She said that she wouldf expect errors to be minimal but that GM wants to makesure it’s been fair about a “very serious business decision.
” Garontakos pointed out that in a hearing before Congress this week, GM CEO Fritz Henderson said that 11 decisions had been Conklin-Fangman, at 3200 Main St. in Kansaes City, was notified by GM (NYSE: GM) on Tuesdayt that its franchise agreement wouls not be renewed inOctober 2010. The which has about 130 Pontiac, Buick, GMC and Cadillaxc vehicles onits lot, employsz 80 people and has existed for more than a from . Before that, it had been a GM franchise for 99 years with theMajord family. The dealership’s holding company, , also owns dealershipsw called Conklin Carsin Salina, Hutchinson and Newton, Kan.
GM, y, is tryinv to pare its 6,000-dealer network to the 3,600 top-performingb dealers. The company’s sales have plummetecd amid the recession.
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