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Littleton Maaco Collision Repair & Auto Painting Earns Angie’s List Super Service Award

Award reflects business’s consistently high level of customer service.

CARSTAR Says 2011 Exceeded Financial Expectations

CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts reported nearly $600 million in companywide sales in 2011, exceeding their financial objectives, according to CEO David Byers. CARSTAR also claimed double-digit same-store sales growth, beating what they cited as the average 2-percent same-store sales growth overall for the industry. Corporately managed insurance sales saw double-digit growth, experiencing the second

Guardian Auto Glass Expansion Continues into Colorado Springs

Guardian Auto Glass provides glass repair and replacement services for automobiles, buses, trucks and recreational vehicles and now has more than 50 locations throughout the United States.

Service King Collision Repair President Appoints New Vice President

Chris Abraham, president of Service King Collision Repair Centers, the nation’s largest employee-owned operator of collision repair centers, announced the appointment of Justin Regan as the company’s new vice president of the Houston market.

‘USA Today’ Cites Maaco as Indicator of Economic Growth

Driven Brands Chairman and CEO Ken Walker and Maaco franchisee Steve Keel of Catonsville, Md., were featured in a recent USA Today cover story. Small businesses – which create an outsize share of jobs – appear to be launching and expanding again, the article said.

Caliber Collision Centers Acquires 100th Facility

Acquisition of five 101 Collision locations in Southern California puts Caliber’s facility count at 100.

Caliber Collision Donates Vehicle to Homeless Family of Five in San Diego

A former middle-class San Diego family of five, rocked by a series of financial and medical misfortunes and now living in a homeless shelter, will be able to start off the new year on a positive note with a refurbished minivan donated by Caliber Collision Centers as part of the company’s participation in the National Auto Body Council’s (NABC) Recycled Rides program.

AutoBody America Opens 17th Location in Middle Tennessee

AutoBody America, a Nashville-based operator of collision repair facilities in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, announced the opening of its 17th location in the Middle Tennessee area.

Caliber Collision Centers Opens 95th Facility

Caliber’s newest 22,500-square-foot collision repair facility opened at 619 Broadway Street, San Antonio, Texas, on Jan. 16.

CARSTAR Adds Three New Locations in Texas

Recently, three independent auto body repair centers have joined CARSTAR. CARSTAR says it’s North America’s largest group of auto body repair experts with some 400 stores in the United States and Canada and growing.

CARSTAR Announces ‘Aggressive’ Expansion Effort in California

CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts announced it is bringing its auto body repair services to California – where there are 5,000-plus body shops – to offer select body shop owners an opportunity to join North America’s largest MSO network with over 400 stores in the United States and Canada.

Gerber Collision & Glass Acquires Repair Center in Washington

The Boyd Group Inc. has announced the December 2011 acquisition of a collision repair center in Kent, Wash. The Boyd Group now owns and operates 11 locations in Washington, which brings the total number of U.S. locations to 137. The new repair center will operate under the Gerber Collision & Glass trade name and is