Recent Press - Napleton Automotive

Each of Napleton Automotive Group’s 50 dealerships has a unique number to schedule a service appointment. Last year, it began routing those calls through its centralized business development center (BDC). Technology alerts the BDC specialist to which store the customer is trying to reach but any specialist can answer a call for any store, creating a seamless customer experience. It had another important result, as well. “It reduced the time to ... Read More >

Serra Automotive was ranked first out of 20 auto dealer groups in Pied Piper’s 2024 PSI Service Telephone Effectiveness (STE) Study, which measured the efficiency and quality of service telephone calls from a customer’s objective of quickly and easily setting up a service appointment. Following Serra Automotive in the rankings were Napleton Automotive Group, Berkshire Hathaway Automotive and Group 1 Automotive. “Successful service departments ... Read More >

The results of Pied Piper’s 2024 PSI Service Telephone Effectiveness Study bear little resemblance to those of last year. At the top of the new list, which ranked 20 dealer groups by their efficiency and quality of service telephone calls in quickly and easily setting up a service appointment from the customer’s perspective, is Serra Automotive, with an STE score of 68 on a 100-point scale. In the 2023 study, Serra ranked in the middle of the ... Read More >

Napleton Automotive Group was honored by performance measurement firm Pied Piper Management Co. three years running for having the fastest and best response times on Internet sales leads. But Brian Napleton, the group's director of operations, was disappointed last year to finish last out of 17 large dealership groups in Pied Piper's Service Telephone Effectiveness study. Napleton said the group "felt we did a very good job handling service ... Read More >