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When the Nationwide Marketing Group's merger with MEGA Group USA was announced in the fall, the benefits of the new venture were immediately evident through sheer numbers. The combined organization created a single entity that serves more than 5,300 independent retailers with more than 14,000 storefronts that generate an estimated revenue of $18.5 billion. That's massive buying power.
And even in our sit-down with Nationwide's Tom Hickman for the Dealerscope Podcast a few weeks ago-before he was made the group's president at this show- we could start to conceptualize how the combined organization would work to create previously unrealized benefits for the membership.
But it took being there in person in Orlando for the first combined Prime- Time show to understand just how much potential this new-look organization truly has.
The first night's PrimeTime Palooza event was the perfect example of that. Official spending numbers out of the event might not be available for a little while, but several vendors at the Sunday evening event...