AUBURN – The Rowe family of dealerships promoted Richard Bateman to corporate general sales manager. In his new position, Bateman will oversee the sales departments of Rowe Auburn, Rowe Lewiston and Rowe Rumford.

He has been employed by the Rowe organization for more than 16 years and has served as general sales manager at Rowe Auburn for the past 14 years.

In addition, Rowe promoted Bert Cote to vice president of corporate sales. Cote has also been with the Rowe organization for several years, most recently serving as general manager of Rowe Mitsubishi in Lewiston. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the automobile industry. In his new position he will offer business owners a direct way to buy or lease new vehicles.