Marlin Leasing
www.marlinleasing.com
You want to work with leasing individuals who truly understand your business and the unique needs and concerns you face. You want to work with leasing experts who are creative, responsive, resourceful, committed and available. You want to work with leasing partners who build relationships not just business deals. You want to work with Marlin Leasing.

NADA
www.nada.org
The National Automobile Dealers Association represents America's franchised new-carand -truck dealers. Today there are more than 19,600 franchised new-car and -truckdealer members holding nearly 40,000 separate new-car and light-, medium-, and heavy-duty truck franchises, domestic and import.

NADA membership is open to any new-automobile or new-truck dealership holding a new automobile or truck sales and service franchise.

• Provides counsel on legal and regulatrory matters
• Represents dealers on Capitol Hill
• Develops research data on the automobile industry
• Operates training and service programs to improve dealership business operations, sales and service practices

NCM Associates, Inc.
www.ncm20.com
NCM Associates is a global leader in improving dealership operations. NCM Associates pioneered the 20 Group concept - a process for approximately twenty dealershipsof similar size in terms of unit volume, profit potential and number of employees from around the country to exchange ideas, experiences and expertise. NCM Associates' group moderators are seasoned experts who understand the dynamics and needs of their groups,and who deliver on those needs.

STAR
www.starstandards.org
The Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) organization is THE Information Technology (IT) STANDARDS organization for the retail AUTOMOTIVE industry. The goal of the STAR organization is to use IT standards as a catalyst in fulfilling the business information needs of dealers and manufacturers while reducing the time and effort previously required to support this activity.

Collectively, the group develops industry standards and researches emerging technologies for the benefit of dealers. Their mission is to: "Establish voluntary industry standards for the exchange, management and integration of information that support the management, delivery and evaluation of retail automobile products and services. Specifically, to create flexible, cost effective standards and methodologies for interoperability between IT systems.

Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, STAR is a not-for-profit volunteer organization and its members include Dealers, Manufacturers and Retail System Providers (RSPs). As members, they are interested in developing, promoting, and administering voluntary IT standards in the retail automotive industry and improving the effectiveness, timeliness and competitiveness of the IT solutions needed within the retail automotive industry.