Reader’s Choice: What Can Be Done to Recruit and Retain Young People in Our Industry?
Like many other technical trades, our industry is facing an aging workforce, and many students are being urged to go the traditional four-year college route and not consider a technical trade as a career option.
BodyShop Business Now Accepting 2016 Executive of the Year Nominations
The award is given to a true collision repair “visionary,” someone who has experienced great success by being forward thinking, overcoming challenges and persevering.
Hire Our Heroes Calendar Fundraiser Raises $100,000 in January
The Hire Our Heroes program provides scholarships and tool grants to military veterans and their family members who are studying collision repair.
The Tech Shortage
Some of the same workforce issues that existed 10 years ago exist today, but the industry has stepped up its efforts to solve them.
AkzoNobel Salutes Outstanding Students with Sustainability Challenge Grant
In its second year, the program awarded $50,000 in grant funding to selected high schools and colleges with collision repair programs to advance continuous improvement and sustainable business principles.
Professional Parts Group’s Chris Northup Elected to CAPA Board of Directors
Northup is one of the most well-known aftermarket parts executives in the country and has been involved in the automotive aftermarket since 1983.
WIN Increases Presence at NACE | CARS, Sees Membership Growth
Sixteen member volunteers were at the show staffing the WIN booth, signing up new members and supporting various pop-up events that were announced via WIN’s social media channels throughout the show.
I-CAR Adds Nick Notte to Leadership Team
Notte will lead the Accounting and Finance, Data Services, Information Technology, Project Management and Lean Process Improvement teams.
Eighteen Students Attend SkillsUSA Conference Thanks to Troy Holm Memorial Fund Grants
Created by PartsTrader in memory of collision industry member Troy Holm, the fund assists students with travel grants and other forms of assistance needed to attend the national event.
Show Preview: Burnin’ Rubber
NACE | CARS speeds back to the Motor City determined to put the show into overdrive with exciting new features.
