Gerber Collision & Glass Acquires 11-Store Florida Collision Operation
Acquisition doubles the number of locations MSO has in Florida; expected to generate annual sales of $23 million.
AutoBody America-Knoxville Announces Winner of Facebook Sweepstakes Giveaway
AutoBody America-Knoxville announced that James Sparks of Knoxville, Tenn., was named the winner of the AutoBody America (ABA) Facebook iPad Giveaway. The contest ran through the month of October to the first week of November. Sparks beat out almost 100 other Knoxville ABA customers and fans to win the big giveaway. The sweepstakes was only
ABRA Auto Body & Glass Acquires Schoonover’s Location in Stillwater, Minnesota
Schoonover Bodyworks and Glass will still operate its remaining location in Shoreview, Minn.
CARSTAR Adds Locations in Washington and Florida
CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts, North America’s largest multi-shop operator network (MSO), has announced the opening of Hi-Tech CARSTAR Eastside in Washington and Orlando American CARSTAR Collision in Winter Park, Fla. In Washington, the new shop at 702 East 64th St. in Tacoma marks owner Tracey Copeland’s fourth CARSTAR location. Orlando American CARSTAR
Fix Auto Announces Changes to Internal Insurance Services Department
Collision shop network rebrands claims solution offering; adds three employees to insurance services team.
Cooks Collision Opens 28th Location in Silicon Valley
Largest family-owned collision repair business in U.S. goes from 18 locations in Northern California to 28 statewide in one year.
Cole’s Collision Centers Opens Fourth Location in New York
Cole’s Collision Centers has announced the opening of its newest collision repair shop in Halfmoon, N.Y. The center will create 15-20 immediate job openings for various positions including administrative, auto repair technicians, customer service representatives and estimators. Cole’s Collision currently employs 52 full-time workers and has three other locations in the Capital Region. Formerly the
Keenan Auto Body Receives VeriFacts 2012 ACE Award
Keenan Auto Body has received the 2012 VeriFacts Repair Center Achievement in Collision Repair Excellence (ACE) Award. This award recognizes outstanding performance from individual technicians and collision repair centers committed to attaining higher repair quality as measured through the VeriFacts Verified Quality (VQ) program. The awards ceremony was held at this year’s SEMA Show; however,
Keenan Auto Body to Donate Recycled Ride to National Guard Member
Pennsylvania multi-shop operation will be one of more than 100 collision repairers to simultaneously gift more than 150 vehicles through Recycled Rides on Nov. 19.
Tenth Annual Fix Auto Conference Offers Educational and Philanthropic Opportunities
Selling, insurance insight, collision repair business strategy and a donation to the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) of New Orleans highlight conference.
CARSTAR Announces National Partnership with iPods for Wounded Veterans
Charity donates iPods, iPads, eReaders to service members in recovery.
Nagy’s Collision Specialists Expands to Ashland, Ohio
New location at Bill Harris Auto Center marks the business’ eighth venture.