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Marine Connection — a Boating Industry Top Dealer with nine Florida locations — has been officially designated as the Florida and North American representative of Quarken, an award-winning Finnish boat brand. Marine Connection will debut the first of three Quarken models during the Annapolis Powerboat Show October 5-8, 2023.         “Our vision has always been to connect people to superior ...

Marine Connection, a Boating Industry Top 100 Dealer with nine Florida locations has appointed three senior managers to its leadership team. Timo Turkki, a 30-plus year employee and most recently Marine Connection operations manager since 2012, has been promoted to general manager with responsibility for overall dealership operations. He will be based at the dealership’s West Palm Beach headquarters location. ...

Marine Connection, Boating Industry Top 100 Dealer of the Year in 2021, has begun the new year by acquiring the majority interest in Boaters Exchange, a successful 20-year retail dealership with two Central Florida locations including Rockledge and New Smyrna Beach.  Marine Connection now owns and controls 80% ownership of Boaters Exchange, with 20% split between former partners and co-owners Jerry ...

Marine Connection, the #2 ranked Boating Industry Top 100 boat retailer in 2020, has just launched its seventh Florida sales and service location in Aventura, North Miami at the famous boating hotspot formerly known as Thunderboat Row. Located directly on the waterfront, the Marine Connection complex features a 5,000 square-foot interior sales showroom and outdoor display, along with a six-bay, full-service ...

Marine Connection, the third-ranked dealer in the 2019 Boating Industry Top 100, has opened its sixth Florida sales location at the expansive Riverwatch Marina complex in Stuart, FL, which is owned and managed by Southern Marinas. Marine Connection’s showroom and outdoor exhibit space will feature new boat sales of Sportsman, Blackfin and Hurricane brands, along with premium pre-owned inventory and ...

Dealers share approaches for bettering the bottom line Top dealers understand the importance of cultivating new revenue.  Planning is critical, and the path to a better bottom line often begins when the current boating season starts to wind down and thoughts turn to the year ahead.  A number of Boating Industry’s 2017 Top 20 dealers took unique approaches when it ...

Over the last decade the boating industry has seen both sides of the inventory challenge.  In the 2007-09 period, we saw dealers stuck with way too many boats when the housing market – and then the rest of the economy – crashed. With dealers dropping left and right and consumers defaulting on loans, excess inventory and repossessed vessels flooded the ...

Marine Connection has announced the addition of a new Islamorada, Fla. sales location to its roster of four full-service dealerships operating in West Palm Beach, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Vero Beach. Its fifth new sales facility, located at 80461 Overseas Highway/Mile Marker 80, is an integral part of the forthcoming new Angler’s House Marina & Club, a recently merged two-marina, ...

Marine Connection announced plans to open a new sales and full service facility at 17 W. State Road 84 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this October, in time for the opening of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The dealership, ranked No. 16 in the 2016 Boating IndustryTop 100, will hang its shingle on a new 27,000-square-foot property including a 2500-square foot ...

Today’s customer is a complicated individual. They are more skeptical and less impulsive, and they do more online research before purchasing than ever before. They are interested, but their lives are so busy that they can’t stay focused. They have more money than during the recession, but they aren’t sure if they want to spend it just yet. How do ...