SCRS Updates Membership and Industry on State Farm Parts Bidding Process
Executive Director Aaron Schulenburg urges repairers to decide if they have “finally had enough of other entities interjecting themselves into our business with unreasonable and invasive mandates.”
SCRS to Hear Repairers’ Pressing Concerns at National Industry Issues Forum
The NIIF has often been held in conjunction with the SCRS Annual Meetings in April and is a forum designed to provide collision repair facilities a venue dedicated exclusively to freely exchanging ideas on the most pressing concerns facing their businesses, while examining potential resolutions to those issues, SCRS says.
Industry-Wide OEM Repair Standards Gaining Support
More than 20 regional and state collision repair groups have endorsed OEM collision repair standards as the official basis for an industry-wide standard.
AASP Announces Industry Improvement Grants, RDE Sponsorship
On April 28 and 29, the AASP National Board of Directors gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina, for its latest meeting. The two-day event was co-hosted by AASP Affiliate Independent Garage Owners of North Carolina (IGONC) and CARQUEST. A highlight of the meeting was a state-of-the-industry presentation/discussion led by Chris Chesney and other CARQUEST personnel. The
SCRS Announces Industry Achievement Award Winners
On March 16, 2011 the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) held its Annual Awards Banquet at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands in Secaucus, N.J. The highlight of the event was the presentation of the SCRS Industry Awards, through which SCRS recognizes those who demonstrate outstanding service and achievement within the collision repair industry. "Two Hawaiian
AASP Announces 2010 Industry Improvement Grant Recipients
At its Nov. 3 meeting, the Alliance of Automotive Service Providers (AASP) Board of Directors selected the first recipients of its new Industry Improvement Grant program. The program, established earlier this year, funds initiatives that demonstrate innovative and collaborative projects and programs that address unmet needs within the mechanical and collision repair industries. The first
AASP-MN Among Associations Honored by the Midwest Society of Association Executives
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers, Minnesota (AASP-MN) recently received a prestigious Midwest Society of Association Executives (MSAE) Award of Excellence for its Get to Know Your Neighborhood Auto Repair Pro campaign. AASP-MN received the award on June 10 at an awards ceremony and luncheon held during the 54th annual meeting of MSAE hosted at
Three Massachusetts Repair Associations Merge
On May 24, the Massachusetts collision repair and automotive service industries united by merging all three of the state’s major automotive repair industry associations. During a special industry dinner meeting held at the Courtyard by Marriott in Marlborough, Ma., the three associations – the Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of Massachusetts (AASP/MA), the Massachusetts Auto
SCRS Industry Awards Recognize Collision Repairer Service and Achievement
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) held its corporate awards dinner on April 13 at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia in Atlanta, Ga. The focus of this annual event is to celebrate and thank the corporate members that enable SCRS to maintain and increase its level of service to its direct and affiliate members, to
AkzoNobel Honors Most Influential Women in Collision Repair Industry
Six industry leaders were honored at the 11th annual Most Influential Women in the Collision Repair Industry awards program held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on April 14. Janet Chaney, Stevensville, Mt.; Erica Eversman, Bath, Ohio; Kimberly Hicks, Highland Park, Mich.; Beth Ann Meckel, Glen Burnie, Md.; Linda Sommerhauser, Kansas City, Mo.;