 Complex Solutions |
The Fontana Group has the systems and facilities required to accomplish difficult assignments. These include:
Our computer graphic techniques include full-color maps depicting census tract characteristics and purchasing behavior, bar charts, pie charts, and histograms. |
| Automotive | Allocation, add point, relocation, termination, more |
| Economic | Valuation, financial analysis, damage assessment |
| Litigation | Preparation, analysis, testimony |
Automotive
The Fontana Group, Inc. is the largest company specializing nationwide (plus Canada) in analyzing automobile dealer-manufacturer franchise issues.
Experience
Economic
Fontana and Mathtech staff have provided expert economic testimony in commercial litigation involving economic damages, franchisee/franchisor disputes, breach of contract, medical malpractice, computer litigation, personal injury, fraud, and other legal matters.
Experience
We have provided insightful solutions to questions such as:
- The economic value of a film credit that a movie producer failed to provide.
- The economic value of the goodwill of a business.
- Economic damages from falsified weights -- when neither the weights nor the prices were known.
- The loss to a company excluded from being the first entrant to a market which a monopolist precluded from forming.
- The amount of freight overcharges when common carrier records were not available.
- The economic loss from a large computer system that never became fully operable.
Litigation
Dr. Ernest Manuel and Mr. Joseph Roesner have testified or submitted affidavits in many administrative hearings, state courts, and federal courts throughout the country, based upon studies by The Fontana Group, Inc. Mathtech staff have also testified as experts in economics, statistics, labor markets, computers, and other subjects in numerous proceedings.
The Fontana Group is well-known for its ability to identify, acquire, organize, and distill complex data from diverse sources into concise, persuasive exhibits.
Automotive Industry Analysis in Action
Automobile
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- Assisted Honda dealers in actions involving unfair product allocation by Honda's zone and regional managers who took bribes
- Analyzed Toyota's allocation system and calculated lost profit damages for several Toyota dealerships who subsequently obtained large judgments or settlements against Toyota and/or Southeast Toyota Distributors regarding unfair product allocations and other unfair practices
- Calculated lost profit damages for a dealer whose business was disrupted by a fire in a new vehicle displayed in his showroom
- Calculated lost profit damages for a Ford dealer who lost sales as a result of hundreds of unauthorized Ford sales by the nearby Lincoln-Mercury dealer
- Calculated lost profit damages for a dealer who received a letter of intent that the manufacturer later cancelled
- Calculated lost profit damages for a dealer who was injured by the illegal sales of new vehicles by a broker
Relocations/Additional Market Franchises
- Assisted several dealers in evaluating alternative store locations
- Assisted relocating dealer in developing reasonable sales objectives for the new location
- Conducted market study for group of dealers who were protesting the addition of another dealership in their market -- a market already exceeding both state and national market penetration
- Calculated lost profit damages for a dealer who wanted to relocate one franchise and dual it at the location of another franchise, but who was opposed by the factory
- Assisted dealers who the factory wanted to terminate for alleged poor sales performance
- Assisted dealer group in acquiring dealership out of bankruptcy that factory wanted to close
- Analyzed customer satisfaction (CSI) data and calculated lost profit damages for a dealer group whose purchase of an additional store was denied by the factory due to allegedly low CSI
- Provided seminars for dealer groups on automobile franchise and marketing issues
- Assisted dealer groups in several states with suggestions on changes to state automobile franchise laws
- Assisted dealers in consultations with the factory concerning methods for assigning planning volumes to dealers in a multiple point
- Provided on-site consulting to dealership seeking ways to increase new vehicle sales
- Assisted dealers affected by factory initiatives under Project 2000
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The Fontana Group, Inc. * 3509 North Campbell Avenue
* Tucson, AZ 85719 * Phone: 520-325-9800 * Fax: 520-325-9847 » tfgi@fontanagroup.com |