The Small Business Administration on Friday announced it would reopen the Paycheck Protection Program on Monday. The first few days will be dedicated to borrowers who use community financial institutions, but the SBA said the [...]
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists on Thursday released the first in what it called a new weekly video tip series for auto body shops. The videos pair Collision Advice CEO Mike Anderson with Database [...]
Predicting it would still represent “the first industry show of the year,” the Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of New Jersey on Thursday announced it would reschedule NORTHEAST to Sept. 10-12, 2021. The show will [...]
Repairers and insurers will see the rollout of Kia’s new logo as new model years or design generations arise, the OEM confirmed Thursday. However, the OEM said it should be established on the entire fleet [...]
A Driven Brands prospectus and Kroll Bond Rating Agency new issue report last month offer collision repairers a look at the activities of one of the collision industry’s biggest names. The big news from the [...]
2020 MSO Symposium panels last fall offered collision repairers insight on the business-centric topics of private equity and auto body shop real estate management. But the sessions also asked the panelists about business plans that [...]
A slew of OEM sales tallies released this week suggests that 2020 marked the year crossovers and SUVs together commanded a 50 percent share of Americans’ auto buying, according to an IHS Markit analyst. IHS [...]
The Database Enhancement Gateway on Tuesday recognized the Auto Body Association of Texas as its latest Gold sponsor. “ABAT is excited to be a Gold Sponsor of the DEG,” ABAT Chairman Burl Richards (Burl’s Collision [...]
If your auto body shop’s business model hinges on racking up storage fees on total losses, you might wish to reconsider, a collision industry expert and a telematics provider recently suggested. Technology allowing insurers to [...]
Nearly 40 percent of collision repairers itemize time spent researching diagnostic trouble codes rather than bundling this labor in their scanning time, according to the latest “Who Pays for What?” survey. The October 2020 poll [...]
