For more information on the What Drives Her program, scan the QR code. https://www.ChicagoAutoShow.com/news/what-drives-her/ 2024 Best Retailer Award recipient, Gabrielle Abinion efforts to diversify her experience within the Auto Group’s portfolio, Abinion is now the general manager of Fox Valley Volkswagen. She has helped her Volkswagen stores set records in sales, as well as break the record for Service & Parts growth three times in 2023. The 2025 awards will be presented during the 2025 Chicago Auto Show’s Media Preview on Thursday, Feb. 6 at McCormick Place. 3. Automotive Ally: This person offers continual support, coaching, advocacy, education and understanding, helping to create opportunities for others as they build their careers in automotive. This award is open to any executive, leader, manager or other person inside or outside the automotive industry and reflects the impact that this person has on the industry, for both individuals and organizations. 4. Best Retailer: At a local level, the Best Retailer award calls on Chicago Automobile Trade Association dealers to nominate an extraordinary female at Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana dealerships. This person demonstrates a high level of commitment and drive to any task at hand, whether that’s in sales, service, finance or technical support. Nominees must be employed by a Chicago-area dealership. The 2024 recipient was Gabrielle Abinion, general manager, Fox Valley Volkswagen. Abinion has always been driven and passionate following her father’s footsteps in the automotive industry. In 2017, Abinion joined her family’s auto group as an operation manager. This led to an opportunity to become the general manager of Fox Valley Buick GMC. It was at this time that she was introduced to General Motors (GM) Minority Dealer Development program through her Dealer 20 group and is now a member of the GM Dealer Development National Candidate Pool. In 12 CATA UP TO SPEED
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