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Kelley Automotive Nominated for The Ledger's Best of Central Florida Awards

For Immediate Release: August 24, 2020

Polk County, Fla. - The Kelley Automotive Group has been nominated as one of the top 5 used car dealerships as part of The Ledger's annual Best of Central Florida awards. The automotive group received their nomination courtesy of the community, who had the opportunity to nominate businesses via The Ledger website from July 12, 2020 through July 26, 2020.

The nomination is for the entire group, which includes locations in Bartow, Winter Haven, Lakeland, and Auburndale. The automotive group also has one location in Cheifland, FL.

According to Marketing Manager Candace Kassman, "To even be nominated by our community is an honor, and it's even sweeter since Kelley Automotive Group is locally owned and most of us have grown up in Polk County!"

Voting will begin on September 6th at 12:00 a.m. and end on September 20th, and the winners will be entirely determined by the votes of the local Central Florida community.

Kelley Automotive Group is a family-owned and operated group of dealerships. Their Bartow new car and truck store-Kelley Buick GMC-was named Florida's only GMC Dealer of the Year by General Motors earlier this year, and multiple dealerships in the group won 2020 Top-Rated Dealer Awards from CarGurus. Kelley Buick GMC was also recently award a Buick Mark of Excellence award by General Motors.

The Kelley family has been serving Polk County's automotive needs for 50 years this year, and is proud to support the local community through sponsoring the Twenty Buck Truck to give back to youth involved in agriculture, sponsoring the Cheep Jeep at Jeepin' with Judd, sponsoring Bustin' Clays with Grady Judd, and various other initiatives. They were able to give $100,000 to the Polk County Youth Fair in 2020 due to the support of the local community. They are proud to not only be able to say they live and work in Polk County, but to also actively strive to give back to the community!

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