Thomas Glendinning of BMI Research told IBIS Ireland 2017 that new vehicle sales in the country would decline by 6.7% in 2017 despite the country’s positive numbers in terms of GDP. However, he said that the challenging figures would not last and that a return to growth was expected as the UK pound began to [...]

The second IBIS Ireland is taking place at the Hilton Dublin today, when key speakers from the crash repair industry are addressing delegates on a range of topics influencing the market today. With presentations on the state of the Irish market, autonomous cars, the skills gap, optimising the vehicle repair process and the use of [...]

Some 380 of the industry’s leading global influencers heard that ‘people’ are likely to be the greatest challenge for the collision repair sector in the coming years. The message came at the IBIS Global Summit 2017 from three of the largest collision repair network operators – Auto King, Caliber Collision Centers and Fix Auto World [...]

Marc Priestley, former F1 mechanic and F1 broadcaster told IBIS Global Summit 2017 delegates that attention to detail is critical for success. During his presentation Teamwork in Formula One Marc looked at how F1 teams become successful, how they maintain that success and how they manage to turn around less positive experiences. Marc, who was [...]

Speaking at the IBIS Global Summit 2017 Jeff McFadden, president of Service King described private equity investment as the ‘jet fuel’ which accelerated its people development programmes. In his session, Apprentices and the skills gap, Jeff gave an insight into his career progression declaring himself as a ‘shop guy’ who started out on the shopfloor [...]