One of the things I said last quarter that I did not do a very good job at was understanding succession planning at each company.   This sent those of us in the investment community into near "panic" mode on a number of occasions throughout the year as key executives announced their departure, and we quickly had to guess: "ok what does this mean for the company's prospects going forward?" 

So as promised, I tried to spend this quarter getting a better understanding of the succession plans at each of the companies in the autoretailstocks.com index.   Specifically, I asked each management team:

If something were to happen (sickness, death, or just departur ...

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