Business View Magazine l October 2022

177 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 10 NEESSEN AUTOMOT I VE GROUP ends with an O-R-D, chances are you got it from Neessen. That being said, it definitely isn’t as easy to get a new car today as it was a few years back. As a direct result of the COVID pandemic that hit in early 2020, supply chains got backed up and manufacturing stalled. “I never thought in my lifetime that I would see something like this happen,” Phillip confesses. “Car dealers are a pretty independent bunch of people. We had to adapt. We used to stock 250 to 300 new cars at the Chevrolet store. On any given day, today, we have 16 to 20 cars in stock.” That doesn’t mean you can’t buy a new car. It just means you are ordering it before it arrives on the lot. New cars don’t sit around waiting for their forever homes anymore. Porter Neessen Devries, Director of Marketing & Administrative Activities, explains, “Customers now place their Neessen CDJR hosts an annual Trunk or Treat every October in which hundreds of community families come together for food, drinks, candy, and fun.