The dealers association helps assign value on its Web site.

Both agencies have been authorized to make presentations to each dealer association, which can then choose one or the other based on its market needs.

That meant Deutsch would handle all 41 dealer associations around the country.

On average, half of all dealers do at least some renovation once in five years, according to the dealers association.

In their search for alternative market sites, the dealers associations appear to be making little headway.

Lobbyists from most state dealer associations attended Friday's meeting and supported the drafting of such a law.

The average dealership's profits were $615,700 in 2002, more than double the $307,000 in 1997, according to the dealers association.

No official statistics are kept, but dealer associations here estimate that at least one of every five Singaporeans has an aquarium.

Though 76 percent of the dealer association's members report having at least one female manager, that's usually where it stops - with one manager.

"We've had some correspondence from Chicago," said Mark Schienberg, the dealer association's executive vice president.