Highland Park Development Group Honors Bill Snethkamp Chrysler Jeep Dodge With 2006 Business Legacy Award

Eighty Year, Four Generation Family Business to Get 2006 Business Legacy Award From HP Devco October 26, 2006

DETROIT, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the nation's oldest car dealerships, Bill Snethkamp Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Highland Park, will be honored Oct. 26, 2006 with the HP Devco 2006 Business Legacy Award for "decades of quality service, dealership expansion and continued support to community organizations in Highland Park."The award will be presented to third generation Snethkamp Automotive Family president Mark Snethkamp at the HP Devco annual awards dinner at Focus HOPE in Detroit, Oct. 26, 2006.

"We have a long standing basic belief that started with my grandfather in the value of reinvesting in your community and in your people," Mark Snethkamp said. "It's been good for us, for our community, for our employees and for our customers for four generations."

HP Devco is an independent not-for-profit development agency dedicated to creating and implementing community and economic growth within the City of Highland Park, which is inside the City of Detroit.

Mark Snethkamp has led the growth and development of the Snethkamp Automotive Family of Dealerships in the last decade to one of the most prominent and successful automotive groups in the nation, including the flagship Bill Snethkamp Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Highland Park; Snethkamp Chrysler Jeep in Redford, Bill Snethkamp's Dodge in Lansing, Al Deeby Dodge in Clarkston, a pre-owned vehicle superstore, Car City, in Highland Park; one of the nation's largest dealer fleet leasing operations, Corporate Fleet Service with vehicles leased in all 48 states, Canada and Mexico; and two advanced technologies body shops, one in Detroit and one in Redford.

Tickets and information for the event are available from HP Devco Inc., 313-252-0353, www.hpdevco.org.

Bill Snethkamp Chrysler Jeep Dodge is located at 16400 Woodward Avenue, Highland Park, MI 48203. 313-868-3300, www.snethkamp.com.