Automotive industry stalwart Ron Sewell dies ? Automotive Industry ...

RON Sewell, who founded automotive intelligence and research business Sewells more than 40 years ago, and was known as ?the father of modern dealership management? has died at the age of 83.

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His outstanding contribution to theUKmotor industry was marked by a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of the Motor Industry.

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He also founded the Automotive Fellowship 16 years ago, an organisation where the most successful, forward thinking senior executives of the industry come together to be stimulated by leading edge thinkers and to share and brainstorm the critical issues facing their businesses.

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Sewell formed the Fellowship because he felt there was a need for manufacturers, dealers and other organisations involved in the industry to work together.

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Christopher Macgowan, visiting professor at the University of Buckingham?s Business School?s Centre for Automotive Management, vice president of the Automotive Fellowship and a former chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, was quoted by industry publication AM as saying: ?It is with enormous sadness that I have to report the death of my dear friend Ron Sewell.

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?He was the inspiration behind the Automotive Fellowship International, was arguably the first person to write management accounts books for automotive dealers ? which have been widely translated ? and provided guidance and advice to thousands within the industry. The well-known Sewells publication was, of course, created by Ron.?

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Sewells was acquired by leading publisher EMAP in the mid-1990s. EMAP was later broken up and Sewells along with trade publications including AM and Fleet News subsequently became part of the Bauer publishing group.

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