Direct Markets serves as a leading provider of Property and Casualty (P&C) and Finance and Insurance (F&I) products and services for franchised dealerships across the U.S. We deliver comprehensive training programs and value-added services and assist our dealer customers establish and manage robust reinsurance portfolios. Our customers rely on Zurich’s local representation and national footprint combined with our strong financial rating and industry expertise to help protect and grow their businesses.
WalkerHughes Insurance
This WalkerHughes Insurance Team specializes in Franchised and Non-Franchised Dealership Risks, providing tailored insurance solutions for auto dealers, groups, and related businesses. With deep industry knowledge and a consultative approach, our team helps clients manage risk across inventory, operations, and liability while supporting long-term growth. WalkerHughes is known for responsive service, strong carrier relationships, and coverage designed specifically for the realities of today’s dealership operations. Our team specializes in finding gaps in your current coverage as well as gaps based on claims that have happened within the automotive industry and delivering to you the broadest offerings available in the marketplace based on your own exposures.
UVeye
UVeye is revolutionizing the way the automotive industry inspects vehicles. Using advanced AI and computer vision, our system delivers a full-vehicle health report in seconds from a single scan. The result is faster, more consistent, and more transparent inspections that improve decision-making and efficiency across the entire automotive landscape. For dealerships, UVeye enhances service lane efficiency, builds customer trust, and increases profitability through automated, objective inspections. OEMs and logistics providers rely on UVeye for standardized quality control, ensuring every vehicle meets brand standards from the factory to delivery. Fleet operators gain real-time visibility into vehicle health, allowing for predictive maintenance and reduced downtime. Used-car platforms and auctions benefit from instant, accurate condition reports that boost buyer confidence and streamline reconditioning processes. UVeye brings the same level of precision and transparency to every touchpoint in a vehicle’s lifecycle. With a single scan, our technology delivers comprehensive insights that help businesses operate smarter, faster, and more reliably.
The Shop by FordDirect
The Shop by FordDirect represents the next step forward in the automotive industry’s ongoing digital transformation. By vetting dealership tools and services and putting them right at stakeholder fingertips, we’re making it easier to delight customers, care for employees and grow in every imaginable way.
The National Digital Titling Clearinghouse (NDTC)
The National Digital Titling Clearinghouse (NDTC), powered by CHAMP, is the first and only state-backed digital vehicle titling solution in the United States. NDTC provides a secure, paperless platform that enables automotive retailers, lenders, and insurers to process title transactions faster, eliminate paper-based delays, and reduce fraud risk—bringing efficiency and transparency to vehicle titling nationwide. CHAMP Titles is a leading provider of digital solutions to motor vehicle agencies (MVAs) in the United States. Its patented technologies and platforms streamline and secure motor vehicle administration. Designed for government, CHAMP’s solutions serve a broad ecosystem of MVA constituents, including vehicle retailers, vehicle wholesalers, insurance carriers, fleet operators, lenders, all the service providers that serve each of these industry verticals, and, of course, consumers. CHAMP’s exceptionally popular CHAMPgov platform and the National Digital Titling Clearinghouse are big steps forward toward a paperless, environmentally friendly, digital, secure, frictionless future for the motor vehicle agency industry.
Sentry Insurance Company
Whether you sell new or used machinery, offer repair services, or rent equipment to customers, we have coverages to protect your industrial equipment dealership. From bulldozers, to loaders, to backhoes, we understand you serve a variety of industries. And our insurance plans reflect that understanding. We write our property and liability insurance policies with construction equipment dealers like you in mind. We also offer 401(k) plans that attract, retain, and provide. It’s your dealership. We can help protect it. | We’ve been building powerful relationships since 1904. If you’re like us, you don’t want to do business with a faceless institution. You want to know what motivates the people who move a business. You want to know who we are, and what we’re all about. We get that, because it’s how we do business too. We work to get to know our customers and their businesses. Why? Because it helps us provide the best possible insurance solutions. At Sentry—because we are a mutual insurance company—our business is built on a foundation of service to our policyholders. Although we’ve grown and changed a lot over the past 110 years, one thing hasn’t changed. We still work to serve our policyholders, and to help their businesses thrive. Our products and services are made possible by a dedicated team of associates, many of whom have been with us for decades. Over 2,000 associates in Stevens Point, Wisconsin—and another 4,000 around the country—work each day to help our policyholders prepare for the unexpected and plan for the future. Chairman and CEO Pete McPartland joined us in 2010 and since then has been providing forward-thinking leadership. Under his direction, we’ve refocused our efforts on positioning ourselves as a leader in the business insurance world. We’ve also expanded our distribution network by growing with select independent agents. We pride ourselves on providing individualized service to our customers. And one of the ways we do this is by using dedicated teams to serve specific industries. Over the years, departments have grown organically around our products and services.
Polly
Polly is the leading customer insurance platform for dealerships. We make it easy for dealerships to close more deals and see higher F&I gross by giving every buyer access to instant quotes and savings from 40+ insurance carriers during the sales process. Polly clears the insurance roadblocks that stall deals. When customers can secure coverage quickly and save, they’re far more likely to stay in the deal, upgrade their vehicle, and purchase more F&I products. Seamless. Fast. Easy. Polly is the only fully embedded insurance platform your team and your buyers need. Just more deals, higher F&I gross, and more customers driving off your lot.
MotorDNA
MotorDNA is a data + AI ecosystem platform that connects Dealers, Finance, Insurance, and service providers through a shared, vehicle-centric engagement layer. Our flagship dealer solution, MotorHUB, is a dealer-branded digital garage that keeps customers connected long after the sale—driving more ROs, higher retention, and always-on digital engagement. MotorDNA also enables a new used-vehicle acquisition channel by turning your customer base into a repeat source of trade-ins and “sell to dealer” opportunities.
KEYper Systems
KEYper Systems, based in Harrisburg, North Carolina, is a worldwide leader in cutting-edge key and asset control solutions. Since our founding in 1992, the name KEYper has become synonymous with reliability, innovation, and excellence helping solve the challenges many organizations face in protecting, managing, and tracking access to sensitive business assets. At KEYper Systems, we provide key and asset solutions tailored to a wide range of industries, from automotive dealerships and high-security government agencies, to universities and law enforcement. From our traditional, low-cost mechanical key boards to robust electronic cabinets and innovative software, KEYper delivers effective key and asset control solutions to meet the needs of any organization. KEYper Systems is part of ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions, dedicated to reimagining how people move through their world. Our expertise in customer journey mapping, innovation and service design leads to the invention of new security solutions that create value for our clients and exceptional experiences for end users. | KEYper Systems, based in Harrisburg, NC is a global provider of innovative key and asset control solutions. We offer a range of affordable security methods from mechanical boards to state-of-the-art electronic cabinets. KEYper Systems has been the standard for key and asset management since 1992. | KEYper Systems, based in Harrisburg, North Carolina, is a worldwide leader in cutting-edge key and asset control solutions. Since our founding in 1992, the name KEYper has become synonymous with reliability, innovation, and excellence helping solve the challenges many organizations face in protecting, managing, and tracking access to sensitive business assets.