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AIADA’s Annual Meeting and Luncheon is a once-a-year event where dealer members come together to celebrate the auto industry and pave new roads into the future. Recent key note speakers at the event have includes Jim Lentz, former executive vice president of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.; and Dick Colliver, former executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co. The 2010 meeting will recognize a new recipient of the David F. Mungenast Lifetime Achievement Award and will celebrate the transfer of leadership from our current chairman, Russ Darrow, to Chairman-Elect Rick DeSilva.
AIADA’s 40th Annual Meeting and Luncheon will be held on Monday, February 15, 2010 in Orlando, Fla.
For more information on this event or to register early, contact Jermaine Perry at 703-519-7800.
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Every spring, AIADA hosts the International Auto Industry Summit in Washington, D.C. The summit, attended by dealers, manufactures, legislators, and industry insiders provides a unique opportunity to learn about the pressing issues affecting the international auto industry in America. It is also an opportunity for participants to reach out to Members of Congress as a unified front via specially arranged meetings on Capitol Hill.
The 2009 Summit, held this May and themed “Navigating a New Washington,” included remarks from two senators, bestselling author Christopher Buckley, FOX News’ Fred Barnes, and a manufacturers’ panel made up of Johan de Nysschen, President, Audi of America; John Mendel, Executive Vice President, American Honda Motor Company; John Krafcik, Acting President and CEO, Hyundai Motor America; and Jim Lentz, President, Toyota Motor Sales USA. In addition, Shau Wai Lam, chairman of DCH Auto Group., was named the first-ever recipient of the Dealers Making an Impact Grassroots Advocacy Award.
For more information on this event, contact Libby Krum at 703-519-7800.
Whenever possible, AIADA seeks to develop strategic alliances with
related organizations to achieve our mission of protecting the interests
of America’s international automobile dealers. Whether hosting
an event, signing onto a letter, or helping influence legislation
in other ways, we are actively involved with numerous like-minded
organizations in and around Washington, D.C.
Here are a few of the groups with whom we currently work:
- U.S. Korea FTA Business Coalition
- Trade for America
- Family Business Estate Tax
Coalition
- Organization for International Investment
- Association of International Automobile Manufacturers
- National Automobile Dealers Association
- National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers
- Automotive Retailing Today
