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Location of lo ca tio ns To ta le (fu m ll t pl im oy e) ee s Ye ar fo un de d # of bo at br an ds # of en gin eb ra Av nd er s ag ef e fic te ien ch cy nic ia n Av er ag eC SI sc or e Company Notable achievement # Ra nk [ Top 20 ] 11 BOSUN'S MARINE INC. Mashpee, Mass. 7 53 1985 8 7 77.7 100 Bosun's purchased a nearby competitor marina that was losing money and turned it into a profitable operation. 12 PORT HARBOR MARINE South Portland, Maine 5 92 1965 14 4 79 92.48 Port Harbor completed its corporate restructuring to create a separate Holding Company, Real Estate and Rental LLCs, and an operating company S corporation. 13 RUSSO MARINE Medford, Mass. 3 45 1940 5 4 70 95.68 Russo added Greenline Yachts, the industry's first, true hybrid production boat in three models: 33-, 40- and 48-foot solar/diesel/electric powered vessels. 14 QUALITY BOATS OF CLEARWATER INC. Clearwater, Fla. 2 17 1973 4 2 73.5 91.08 With a good cash position, Quality Boats was able to and take creative trade-ins on new boats, such as vacant land, houses, condos, warehouses, RVs and more, resulting in increased sales in the larger boat segment. 15 M&P MERCURY SALES LTD. Burnaby, British Columbia 4 43 1957 6 4 100 93.3 M&P put a greater emphasis on its social media presence. An outside firm was hired to assist with the effort, resulting in a more than 700-percent increase in new social media interactions. 16 AUSTIN BOATS & MOTORS INC. Lakeway, Texas 1 21 1974 5 5 79.8 97.77 Using information garnered through its 20 Group membership, Austin Boats and Motors has made several improvements that increased sales margins and produced more operating income and bottom-line profits. 17 BMC BOATS Longwood, Fla. 1 33 1998 7 3 100 91.5 BMC empowered a traditional Customer Service Representative person to become a Case Manager to handle all of its customer service issues, with authority to handle every customer service case until closed. 18 MARINE CONNECTION West Palm Beach, Fla. 3 32 1987 6 5 90.47 98.86 Marine Connection worked with a new vendor to design a custom DMS that improves workflow by helping the dealership share its inventory across multiple platforms from its website to eBay. 19 HAMPTON WATERCRAFT AND MARINE Hampton Bays, N.Y. 2 49 1990 7 12 85 93.63 Hampton Watercraft and Marine built on its video walk through initiative and created more "how to" videos to better suit its customers, as well as basic maintenance videos. 20 OAK HILL MARINA Arnolds Park, Iowa 1 25 1990 8 6 87.8 97.25 Oak Hill's accounting department and owner met once a week to go over profit and loss statements, helping to make decisions in a timelier manner and establish sales goals, personal goals and company wide goals. KEY DND: Did not disclose www.BoatingIndustry.com P24x25-BI13DEC-Top100Top20.indd 25 December 2013 | Boating Industry | 25 11/15/13 9:59 AM