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Home > Company Index > Specialty Retail > Auto Dealers & Distributors > Sam Swope Auto Group, Inc.

Sam Swope Auto Group, Inc.
 PROFILE
Sam Swope Auto Group would like to park its cars in front of every Kentucky home. The company owns about 20 automobile dealerships in Kentucky. (Most dealerships are at one location in Louisville.) In 1952 founder and chairman Sam Swope parlayed his love of cars into his first dealership, which sold Plymouth and Dodge cars, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Swope dealerships sell GM cars, including Buicks, Cadillacs, GMC trucks, Pontiacs, and Saturns. Other company dealerships sell BMW, Honda, Infiniti, Lexus, Mitsubishi, and Toyota models. The company also sells used cars. Sam Swope Auto Group, owned by the Swope family, offers parts and service departments, finance and lease options, and a body repair center.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 445.10
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 107.0%
Employees: 1,087
Revenue per employee: $409,475.62

 KEY PEOPLE
• Richard Swope
    CEO
• Michael Sanderson
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
10 Swope Auto Center
Louisville, KY 40299
US
Phone: 502-499-5000
Fax: 502-499-5009
Online: Web Site

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