In a press release Monday, the Long-Lewis Automotive Group announced that it will take over operations at the Moore-Stewart Ford and Honda locations in Selma. Both locations will be renamed Long-Lewis of Selma.

According to the press release, Long-Lewis will expand the Ford dealership to include a “state-of-the-art Service and Quick Oil Change facility,” providing new jobs in Selma.

“We are very excited about this opportunity,” Long-Lewis of Selma President Beau Smith said in the press release. “Rest assured that it will be anything but business as usual.”

Long-Lewis is the oldest and largest automotive retailer in Alabama, according to the release, and has a “deep history of customer and employee satisfaction.”

“We fully expect this location to immediately double its current volume by employing the Long-Lewis way of doing business,” Smith said in the press release. “The change in the approach to automotive sales is absolutely mind blowing, but it is obviously what today’s customers demand.”

Currently, Long-Lewis retails over 800 vehicles a month and provides more than 600 additional vehicles to the fleet and wholesale markets each month.

According to a recent National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Annual Contribution of Alabama’s Vehicle Dealership Report, Long-Lewis has an annual sales volume 11 times larger than the average automotive retailer in the state.

“As a Selma native, I am extremely excited and humbled to have the opportunity to expand the Long-Lewis family into my hometown,” said Long-Lewis Automotive Group President and CEO Todd Ouellette.

The new jobs that will come to Selma include everything from sales consultants to experienced technicians, the press release said, and Long-Lewis boasts a less than 10 percent employment turnover rate.

The addition of the Selma locations will put the automotive dealer in the top 1 percent for volume nationally.