• Graeme Reid, Lightstone

    • May 16, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Content Updates
    Graeme Reid, Lightstone
    Graeme’s initial corporate career was spent in retailing fulfilling operational and strategic roles with major South African companies. Experience as the general manager of a service group in the auto sector introduced him to the motor industry. Once completed, a dissertation on the future of the retail motor dealer continued with him joining a specialist [...]
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  • Ian Groat – Publisher of Automotive Refinisher magazine

    • May 16, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Content Updates
    Ian Groat – Publisher of Automotive Refinisher magazine
    Ian Groat has a five-decade long track record in the body shop and paint business and started Automotive Refinisher magazine over 33 years ago. The publication is a collision repair specific magazine which links body shops, OEMs and insurance as we are all connected in the market of mobile nuts and bolts.  The magazine is [...]
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  • FIX AUTO

    • May 16, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Partners
    FIX AUTO
    For more than 25 years, Fix Auto has been bringing forward-thinking collision repair shop owners together under one brand with one goal: to build a reputation of excellence in the industry by maintaining consistently high standards of quality, ethics and performance across all our locations. Fix Auto is transforming the global collision repair franchise business [...]
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  • Speed limiters to raise alignment services

    • May 15, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Demand for four wheel alignment services are expected to escalate from 2022 if speed limiters become compulsory on all new cars across Europe. Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), the technology that slows down a vehicle that is travelling too fast, works by using a speed sign recognition camera and GPS-linked speed limit data. ISA could be [...]
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  • Honda announces UK plant closure

    • May 14, 2019
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Honda is planning to close its Swindon plant in 2021 after a three-month consultation process failed to find ‘viable alternatives’. The manufacturer will now discuss redundancy packages with the 3,500 workers. Honda UK director Jason Smith said, ‘We understand the impact this decision has on our associates, suppliers and the wider community. We are committed [...]
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