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Rent-to-own News - 2011 Bestway Annual Meeting highlights 25 years of success
Bestway Rent To Own held its 2011 Annual Meeting at the Omni Hotel and Resort at Champions Gate recently where more than 100 company managers attended.
The four-day meeting included presentations by the executive team, a motivational speaker, breakout seminars by various vendors, and an award ceremony.
During the General Session on Monday, CEO David Kraemer, formally introduced the district managers and home office team.
“Progressive thinking, innovative ideas, aggressive sales strategies and partnerships are the key to our success this year,” said David Kraemer. “With the support of store personnel, home office staff and our vendor partners, we are committed to the continued growth of our company so we can provide career opportunities for our co-workers and sensational deals for our customers. We are blessed to have such a great team working towards this mutually beneficial cause.”
Tuesday morning continued with seminars from vendors - Whirlpool, Serta, Ashley Furniture, Welton USA, D & H, Expert Warehouse, Benefit Marketing, Sears and O’Rourke Sales.
The afternoon was “free time” and everyone enjoyed Disney, Universal, shopping, golf, the spa or just relaxing at the resort. The Wednesday Awards Ceremony presented the opportunity for Bestway to recognize a number of outstanding district managers, store managers and their teams.
More than seventy awards were given for growth, revenue and profit.
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2012 APRO Convention and Trade Show July 24-26, Memphis, TN
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RTOHQ: The Magazine
RTOHQ: The Magazine is the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations' award-winning rent-to-own industry magazine, and it's available here. | |||
 CLICK HERE FOR OUR DIGITAL RTOHQ: THE MAGAZINE
RTOHQ: The Magazine’s upgraded digital format APRO's new, mobile-ready magazine is now available in addition to our print edition. The digital format provides the same informative content as our printed magazine, but also offers tools to make the reading experience more enriching. Access the table of contents page with one click or tap. Get additional information from advertisers by clicking on the links in their ads. The interface is easy to navigate and requires no special app—read our magazine on your computer, digital table or smartphone. Click here to access the digital version of RTOHQ: The Magazine March-April 2012.
A New Rent-to-Own Experience by Neil Ferguson Here’s the lowdown on APRO’s 2012 Convention and Trade Show, July 24-26 in Memphis. The RTO industry’s big event will offer many valuable experiences, including insights on how to turn your stores into “experiences”–the good kind for consumers
Who Is Your Competition? by Bill Keese In order to expand your customer base, you can learn a lot by observing your competitors. But first, you need to figure out just who they are. If you think your only competition is the rent-to-own store down the street, you’re not considering the bigger picture. APRO’s executive director offers a big-picture perspective.
A Review of Online Customer Complaints by Ed Winn III While rent-to-own companies have not cornered the market on negative reviews posted on consumer complaint websites, it’s no surprise that there are cyberspace beefs against RTO. APRO’s general counsel reviews some of them in search of a pattern and he considers appropriate response to online complaints.
Rent-to-Own Families, Part VIII by Kristen Card Our series of family-run rent-to-own businesses continues with profiles of the Homeiers in Kansas and two Texas-based sets of kindred colleagues, the Spangles and the Weisblatts.
Future issues of APRO's magazine will be available in this same new format. Click here to access past issues that are not yet archived in the new interface.
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