The Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association has elected officers and directors for 2009 at the association's annual meeting held last week at the Fairmont Kea Lani Resort on Maui.

Elected at the Oct. 3 event were: president, Stan Masamitsu; president-elect, Dennis Short; vice president, Nick Cutter; secretary, Joe Nicolai; treasurer, Ron Hansen; O'ahu directors, Bill van den Hurk, Eric Fukunaga, Morrie Stoebner and Jack Jackson; at-large directors, Fletcher Jones III; and John Uekawa; and immediate past president, Wayne De Luz.

Also sworn in were directors previously elected by dealer members on their respective islands: Maui director, Damien Farias; Hawai'i director, Alan Clark; and Kaua'i director, James Hanley.

HADA represents Hawai'i's franchised new-car dealerships, which employ more than 5,000 people statewide. The 77 dealerships have a total annual payroll of $260 million, and total annual sales of $2.786 billion, which represents 14.2 percent of the non-visitor industry retail economy of the state, according to HADA.