• Who owns the customer?

    • July 14, 2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: IBIS News
    An insight into the Dutch market during IBIS Ireland 2016 suggested the big question remains around who owns the customer. Paul Dingemans, freelance project manager and consultant presented a session ‘A view of the Dutch bodyshop market’ which raised the question of who owns the customer – the broker, the bodyshop or the insurer. Highlighting [...]
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  • The generation game

    • July 14, 2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: IBIS News
    Paul Davies, head of innovation, Audatex UK offered IBIS Ireland 2016 delegates an insight into generational behaviour change by saying, ‘we need to change how we do things’. Paul opened his session ‘Digitalisation and Gen Y’ by highlighting how the insurance sector is the only industry to have made two annual profits since 1944 – [...]
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  • European registrations strong in H1

    • July 14, 2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    First half registrations in 2016 for Europe’s ‘Big 5’ markets showed that overall the market is performing strongly according to JATO Dynamics. The total volume of new registrations in the first six months of the year grew by 8.9% as a result of double-digit growth in Italy and Spain. Both countries posted their best half-year [...]
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  • Nissan Serena to feature ProPILOT

    • July 14, 2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd’s new Serena, scheduled to go on sale in Japan in late August, will come equipped with the company’s ProPILOT autonomous drive technology. ProPILOT is an autonomous drive technology designed for highway use in single-lane traffic. Nissan is the first Japanese automaker to introduce a combination of steering, accelerator and braking that [...]
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  • HUD market to soar

    • July 14, 2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    The automotive head-up display (HUD) market will exceed 16 million installed units by the end of 2021, with the market anticipated to expand fourfold during the forecast period 2016-2021. The new research from Juniper Research – Automotive HUDs: Innovations, Strategies & Leaders 2016-2021 – found that the market will be driven by increased adoption in [...]
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