When Ford introduced its dearlership program last summer, executives expected it would be tough to cut down stores, increase sales per store and improve dealer profits. However, dealers seem to be heading out quicker than Ford expected.
300 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury plants will be gone by the end of 2007, half of the 600 the company hoped to get rid of by the end of the decade. Ford hopes that the fewer stores will sell more cars, giving them more...
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