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Article: How this Gen 5 store lived to be 100; Hard work, many tough decisions kept Egglefield Ford alive.
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- Automotive News
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- November 2, 2009
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Byline: Jesse Snyder
Dennis Egglefield has two big tasks on his mind: planning a 100th anniversary bash for his upstate New York Ford dealership and preparing for a fifth generation of Egglefields to take over what great-grandpa Wilbur wrought in 1910.
Neither will be easy.
Egglefield, who is 61 and suffered his third heart attack in May, plans to turn things over to his sons Cory, 37, and Kent, 33, who are relative latecomers to the family business.
As is the case everywhere else, business has been lousy in the past year at Egglefield Ford, which is in the Adirondack Mountains. And that's on top of a customer base that has been ...