Survey: Favourite repairs and most common types of vehicle damage
Hamilton, Ontario — July 18, 2017 — “Bumpers. Fast and easy with high profitability.” Many repairers may agree with this anonymous comment left on our most recent survey. The survey focused on common types of repairs and vehicle damage, as well asking survey participants to name their favourite type of repair. A repairer who appreciates […]
Tuesday Ticker: Disruption continues to impact retail auto parts stores
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — July 17, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker looks into the continuing nosedive at retail auto parts stores, the car sales boom in Saskatchewan, what associations have to say about possible NAFTA renegotiations and much, much more! Uni-Select Research analysts at National Bank Financial have reduced their estimates for […]
ATI to present ‘Collision Repair Shop Mastery’
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — July 17, 2017 — The Automotive Training Institute (ATI) has announced it will hold a special one-day training event for collision repair shop owners. The event has an ambitious title: Collision Repair Shop Mastery. According to ATI, this one-day training course is designed to give you information that you […]
International Night Reception at NACE Automechanika to offer global networking opportunities
By CRM Staff Chicago, Illinois — July 17, 2017 — Collision repair is a global business, but repairers do not often have a chance to network with members of the industry from outside of Canada. The International Night Reception at NACE Automechanika offers this opportunity. With more than 600 exhibiting companies and well over 10,000 […]
Shop Tour: CARSTAR Peterborough 2017
ALLDATA to host online marketing webinar
Elk Grove, California — July 16, 2017 — ALLDATA has teamed up with Google’s Automotive Marketing team to offer a webinar on the best online marketing practices for automotive repair shops on July 27, 2017 at 2 p.m. EST. The presentation will be delivered by Google Product Specialist Matt Krystofik. The webinar is scheduled to […]
Friday Fun: A ‘wild ride’ to escape BC’s forest fires; bodyshop employee embezzles half a million
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — July 13, 2017 — In this week’s edition of Friday Fun we look into one couple’s wild ride to escape the BC forest fires, a collision shop employee convicted of embezzling more than $500,000 from the business, a dispute between collision repairers and insurers in New Zealand and much, […]
Enterprise hosts 22nd annual charity golf tournament
By CRM Staff King City, Ontario — July 13, 2017 — Enterprise Rent-A-Car recently held its 22nd annual golf tournament in support of the Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade (WICC). This year’s tournament was held at King Valley Golf Club in King City, Ontario. Enterprise employees and industry supporters turned out in large numbers for […]
Collision 360 Airbrush Clinic with Steve Vandemon
Steve Vandemon teaches airbrush basics at Collision 360 clinic
By Alex Dugas Toronto, Ontario — July 12, 2017 — An airbrush clinic, hosted by Collision 360 in Toronto and sponsored by Anest Iwata, drew an impressive crowd as well-known specialist Steve Vandemon laid out the basics of the technique. The event, which was the first hosted by Collision 360 since the shop’s recent move to […]
