GIADA Quality Dealer Award
Every year GIADA presents its Quality Dealer Award to one carefully chosen dealer, honoring the extraordinary achievements of Georgia's independent dealers.
The award
Honoring Georgia's best independent dealers
Quality Dealer Award recipients have consistently shown their dedication to excellence in the industry, exceptional customer service, and a commitment to improving their communities for the benefit of all.
The award is presented at GIADA's Annual Convention & Expo, during a banquet dinner attended by leading figures in the industry and fellow dealers.
Complete the application and send it by fax to 770-745-9655 or by email to amyb@giada.org.
2025 winner
Meet GIADA's 2025 Quality Dealer of the Year
2025 GIADA Quality Dealer of the Year: Mark Cole of Cole's Automotive Group
Since 1976
Past GIADA Quality Dealer Award recipients
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Mark Cole |
| 2024 | Jack Carter |
| 2023 | David Johnson |
| 2022 | David Mosley |
| 2021 | Jeffrey Wilkinson |
| 2020 | Lee Cavendar |
| 2019 | Jennifer Knights |
| 2018 | Kim New |
| 2017 | Charles Hubert Keller Jr. |
| 2016 | Matt Morris |
| 2015 | Larry Lewallen |
| 2012 | Michelle Groover |
| 2011 | Billy Graham |
| 2010 | Bo Culver |
| 2009 | Ranny Cannon |
| 2008 | Clifford McGee |
| 2007 | Kenny Warren |
| 2006 | Robert Kendall |
| 2005 | J.D. Masters, Jr. |
| 2004 | Kevin Thomas |
| 2003 | Bill Chambers |
| 2002 | Randle Smith |
| 2001 | Barry Banister |
| 2000 | Morris Graham |
| 1999 | Larry Mannion |
| 1998 | Dave O'Connor |
| 1997 | John Shows |
| 1996 | Claude Rainwater |
| 1995 | Jeff Wilkinson |
| 1994 | Joseph Addison |
| 1993 | Dewell Sanford |
| 1992 | Sherold Salmon |
| 1991 | Jerry Coffey |
| 1986 | B.L. Bonnie Pace |
| 1985 | Donald Smith |
| 1984 | David Lee Moore |
| 1983 | Wayne Reaves |
| 1982 | Jim Hardman |
| 1981 | Sherold Salmon, Sr. |
| 1980 | James Pethel |
| 1979 | Dan Sears |
| 1978 | J.C. Pitts, Sr. |
| 1977 | Dave Rankin, Jr. |
| 1976 | Carl Ficken |