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Crown Automotive Mourns the Loss of Dwayne Hawkins, Founder & CEO

By ev3v4hn 2 weeks ago

The entire Crown Automotive Group family is mourning the loss of their beloved founder and CEO, Dwayne Hawkins, who passed peacefully on December 24th after a brief illness.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (PRWEB) January 04, 2021

A true automotive industry icon, Dwayne spearheaded the growth of Crown Automotive Group, which today encompasses 22 dealerships in three states and employs more than 1,100 people.

Hawkins started the business on April 1, 1969, out of a run-down, one-car showroom in St. Petersburg, Florida. Crown feels his greatest legacy will be the single-minded passion and dedication he had for giving back to his local community.

For more than 50 years, he enthusiastically supported a variety of civic and charitable causes, with both time and funds, ranging from St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Hospital and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital to Tampa’s Moffitt Cancer Center where he founded the Hawkins Stem Cell Fund. Dwayne also served as

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Our Take On Group 1 Automotive’s (NYSE:GPI) CEO Salary

By ev3v4hn 4 months ago

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3 Stocks Flashing Signs of Strong Insider Buying

If you really want to know which stocks the experts – and those in the know – are buying, pay attention to what they’re doing. Stock reports, company reviews, and press statements are helpful, but you’ll get significant information from watching what the insiders are up to.The insiders – the corporate officers and board members – have to disclose when they snap up shares to prevent any unfair advantages. Tracking their stock purchases can be a useful strategy because if an insider spends their own money on a stock, it could signal that they believe big gains are in store.So, investors looking for stocks that may be flying ‘under the radar,’ but with potential to climb fast, watching for insider purchases identify some sweet market plays. To make that search easier, the TipRanks Insiders’ Hot Stocks tool gets the footwork started

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How Much Is Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE:ABG) Paying Its CEO?

By ev3v4hn 5 months ago

David Hult has been the CEO of Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE:ABG) since 2018, and this article will examine the executive’s compensation with respect to the overall performance of the company. This analysis will also evaluate the appropriateness of CEO compensation when taking into account the earnings and shareholder returns of the company.

Check out our latest analysis for Asbury Automotive Group

Comparing Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.’s CEO Compensation With the industry

Our data indicates that Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. has a market capitalization of US$2.1b, and total annual CEO compensation was reported as US$5.5m for the year to December 2019. That’s a notable increase of 9.5% on last year. We think total compensation is more important but our data shows that the CEO salary is lower, at US$1.0m.

On comparing similar companies from the same industry with market caps ranging from US$1.0b to US$3.2b, we found that

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