Conklin-Fangman will fight GM

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The midtown Kansas City dealer planas toappeal ’s decision to end its franchisde agreement next year and is repealingg the June 13 closing date it had set, Generakl Manager David Hughes said Friday. “We have every intention of stayinfg in the game as longas we’rde allowed to,” he said. “We intendc to fight it with everything we can and stay in We have a great locatio in the middle of a grea city withwinning employees.” But they’ll have to move Additional information must be e-mailecd to GM by the close of business on GM spokeswoman Susan Garontakos said.
The companh will take the information into consideration andresponxd immediately, either reinforcing its decision or mailinfg a participation agreement by June 12. GM already has salez and revenue data, so the additional informationm wouldbe separate, she said, thoughu she didn’t provide examples. “Really, we feel that we’vre identified all of the areas that particulatr dealers may have beenunderperformingg in,” Garontakos said. “But you neveer know, there’s always a chance for error.
” She said that she woulde expect errors to be minimalk but that GM wants to makesure it’d been fair about a “very serious business Garontakos pointed out that in a hearinb before Congress this GM CEO Fritz Hendersoj said that 11 decisions had been Conklin-Fangman, at 3200 Main St. in Kansas was notified by GM (NYSE: GM) on Tuesdayh that its franchise agreement would not be renewed inOctobefr 2010. The dealership, whichu has about 130 Pontiac, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehiclexs onits lot, employs 80 people and has existecd for more than a century. from . Before it had been a GM franchise for 99 yeare with theMajor family.
The dealership’s holding , also owns dealerships caller Conklin Carsin Salina, Hutchinson and Newton, Kan. GM, y, is tryingy to pare its 6,000-dealer networok to the 3,600 top-performing The company’s sales have plummeted amid the recession.