Ron Breslow, long-time COO for FLD Remarketing, has retired after spending greater than 4 a long time with the corporate that he helped construct.
Breslow helped develop the corporate, which is predicated in Delray Seashore, Fla., from a small regional participant to the business’s largest car remarketing firm, in response to the corporate. Within the late 1970’s, Breslow partnered with Michael Sheinson – who had simply began Fleet Lease Disposal – now FLD – to purchase and promote finish of lease fleet autos and tools. Sheinson later handed away in 2013.
Throughout his profession, Breslow was personally answerable for remarketing over 250,000 autos, and the methods and strategies he developed are nonetheless business requirements right now, the corporate stated. That features introducing the fleet business’s first on-line car situation report in 1997, a course of that had beforehand taken weeks to conduct.
Previous to working with FLD Remarketing, he was the proprietor of D&R Auto Gross sales and Repairs from 1977 to 1980, and earlier he was a brand new product technician for Ford from 1961 to 1977.
Breslow was additionally acknowledged as one of many first fleet professionals to broadly faucet auctions as a most well-liked method to shortly remarket autos, the corporate stated. He helped develop FLD’s distinct worth proposition, which pays car sellers up-front as an alternative of getting them wait weeks or months to receives a commission after a car lastly sells, the corporate stated.
“Ron was – and nonetheless is – one among a form,” stated Garry Mott, president of FLD Remarking. “I’ve realized a lot from him not nearly remarketing, however about life. We’re all going to overlook him.”