Cambridge Automotive Group announced the grand opening of a new Maaco location in Dallas.
With the transaction, Cambridge Automotive Group now owns 34 Maaco shops across the country.
Formed in 2015, Cambridge Automotive Group is the largest Maaco franchisee in the world. The group is seeking to open additional Maaco locations, especially in California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
If we are going to agree that inspections are needed when a collision occurs, then we should all be on the same page on what that means.
What is the definition of a “collision” as it pertains to required safety inspections? OEMs haven’t provided a clear answer to this question, and so it is left up to the shop to decide how to interpret these requirements. It seems like each shop I speak with has a different idea/definition of collision. If we are going to agree that inspections are needed when a collision occurs, then we should all be on the same page on what that means — and the OEMs should provide clearer guidelines. – Loni Waltasi, Old Dominion Collision, Eugene, Ore.
If in the past insurance companies would only pay the prevailing rate, then why do they not have to pay the prevailing rate now, since the prevailing rate went up?
Norm Markham was a student at Dennis Technical Education Center in the early 1980s and is now one of the collision repair and automotive refinishing instructors there.
Knowing your fixed costs and breakeven point up front may be the difference in making money in a month or not.
It’s critical to create a culture where everyone embraces doing his or her job with the highest quality and providing excellent customer service — with the same passion that you as the owner have.
The privately owned MSO announced it has acquired Brian’s Paint & Body, a two-location MSO in the metro Atlanta market.
Focus Advisors said it is seeing increasing interest by successful dealership owners to sell their body shops and enter services agreements.
Classic Collision has announced the acquisition of Wright One Paint & Body in Augusta, Ga.
Consolidation news from the week of May 29.
