Mitchell last month reported that electric vehicle estimates were more likely to include the replacement of four staple collision parts when compared to estimates for gas-powered models. The EV repair process was also likely to [...]
In addition to permitting a new wave of PPP assistance, the massive COVID-19 relief bill approved Sunday allots more money to the popular Economic Injury Disaster Loan advance program. Congress passed House Resolution 133 on [...]
State Farm has dropped its platform-agnostic policy and will require Select Service collision repairers to use CCC by next spring, calling it a matter of customer service and streamlining. “While State Farm has historically allowed [...]
Driven Brands told investors this month it spent more than $80 million combined to add more than 200 Fix Auto USAs and ABRAs to its collision repair franchise empire since late 2019. The automotive aftermarket [...]
Driven Brands, the private equity-funded conglomerate behind CARSTAR, Maaco, Fix Auto USA and ABRA, last week filed for an initial public offering it indicated would bring in hundreds of millions of dollars. The company plans [...]
Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey this month stipulated she would not enforce the state’s expanded “Right to Repair” law until a federal court reaches a verdict on an OEM legal challenge. One of the [...]
Driven Brands last month called the company’s national franchise brands well-positioned amid what he called an insurer desire to pare down networks of affiliated auto body shops. “We happen to know many carriers right now [...]
Editor’s note: Merry Christmas! This year, we thought we’d bring you a little holiday cheer by reprinting with edits some of the feel-good industry stories the Collision Repair Education Foundation has been sharing this month. [...]
Reconditioned parts vendor Original One Parts last week announced it had bought electronic parts procurement system PartCycle. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. It appears to be Original One’s first major purchase since being [...]
I-CAR earlier this month honored Tuscan, Ariz.-based Eric Auto Center CARSTAR, calling the repairer the “world’s first” body shop to register 30 consecutive years as a Gold Class facility. “There were plenty of years I [...]
