Business View Magazine | April/May 2022

70 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4 AT A GLANCE THE HOUSTON AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION (HADA) WHAT: A non-profit corporation designed to support new car and truck dealers WHERE: Based in Sugar Land, TX WEBSITE: www.houstoncardealers.com within the community, provide advocacy and legislative lobbying, and a lot of educational and networking opportunities. We do a lot of charitable giving as well. We have a scholarship program for employees and their dependents, and any students that are in a technical program studying to be an automotive technician. “We also support the Dealer Alert program, and a motorist assistance program (MAP) where BVM: Can you give us a brief overview of HADA? Salinas: “The Houston Automobile Dealers Association is comprised of 187 new car dealerships in the greater Houston area – we have members from family-owned dealerships to large corporate groups, and we have associate members, which are businesses that provide services to the car dealers. We represent the dealers as a non-profit association