Midwest
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Overland Park, Kan.—During an OEM panel discussion at the National Automotive Service Task Force (NASTF) General Session, four automaker executives offered details about service-readiness requirements at franchise...
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IOWA
Toyota of Des Moines is moving from the Merle Hay Auto Mile in Des Moines to Grimes and expanding its service department. Toyota of Des Moines will take over the space...
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Altoona, Iowa—More than 60 vendors were on hand at the Midwest Auto Body Trade Show, hosted by the Iowa Collision Repair Association (ICRA) in Altoona, March 28, at the Prairie Meadows Casino. The event featured a luncheon...
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Kansas City, Mo.— Organizers of the 2013 Vision Hi-Tech Training and Expo announced the event’s first-ever Educator Think Tank training sessions were popular with its automotive repair educators. The Educator Think...
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Overland Park, Kan.—Are you, as a shop owner or manager, frustrated that a lower-skilled repair such as a brake job is often more profitable than a complicated diagnostic procedure requiring more training and specialized equipment? ...
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Overland Park, Kan.—The “Power Up” theme of the 2013 Automotive Service Association-Midwest (ASA-Midwest) Vision Hi-Tech Training & Expo, which ran from March 7-10, at the Overland Park Convention Center was fitting, as the...
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Overland Park, Kan.—“Your brand defines how you expand your business,” Danny Sanchez, CEO of Autoshop Solutions, told attendees during his seminar, “Branding Brings in the Bucks,” at the recent ASA-Midwest Vision Hi-...
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Warrensburg, Mo.—Since his start in the collision repair business as a teenager in the late ’60s, Bryan Sams, owner of Bent & Dent Body Shop, has learned what time-honored practices still work for him and what newer techniques and...
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Kansas City, Mo.—Success does not come from great products alone, PPG Regional Manager Joel Hartnagel said. Rather, it is the marriage of a superior product with the proper technical training, business education, and sales support that...
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MIDWEST
IOWA
ABRA Auto Body & Glass said its franchisee in Clinton earned the company’s Presidents...
