Industry Insider

Tune in to this week's episode of Industry Insider to learn more about Hollander's POWER-DB, a web platform designed especially for the company’s Powerlink platform and database for automotive recyclers. For more information on POWER-DB, visit www.hollandersolutions.com.

How you facilitate communication with your customers seems like a straightforward aspect of doing business—but how much can an iota of customer consideration help your operations in the long run? On this episode of Industry Insider, we sit down with Tim Morgan, the COO of Spanesi Americas, to hear how his company handles communication—and how it pays off in droves.

It's a secret to none that the Canadian collision repair workforce touts a high age demographic. We may wish we were immortal, but that's just not the reality. So—have you given any thought to an exit strategy? Tune in to this week's Industry Insider podcast to hear from Greg Wing, the director of sales for Simplicity Car Care, and start thinking about the steps you'll need to take when the day co...

In this week's episode of Industry Insider, we get Mark Puente, the CEO of Premiere Services, on the line. Puente shares with us the details of Premiere Services’ Certified Radio Program—an initiative in partnership with LKQ set to debut in Canada next year—and how it can counteract issues of cybersecurity in the recycling process of vehicle consoles.

On this week's Industry Insider, we speak with Michel Matte, an executive at BMW Group Canada to look deeper into the company’s scholarship program and how it could set a precedent for other OEMs in the future.

On this week's Industry Insider, we discuss the recent news of Volkswagen privatizing its part distribution, as well as offering exclusive benefits to its drivers.

Fix Auto President Steve Leal and Fix Auto Ontario Regional Vice President Daryll O'Keefe discuss the opening of Fix Auto's first training centre and what that could mean for industry technician shortages.

From being the only woman in her auto class to facing discrimination as a shop owner, Hilary Noack has overcome a lot in the automotive industry and fills us in on what it's like to be a young woman in a male-dominated industry.

Jack Poladian, the operations manager at Eagle Towing, talks business. He takes us through the logistics of growing a towing business, and even how to branch into one from a collision repair industry standpoint.

Mohammad Abdoli-Eramaki, professor at Ryerson University, explains the long term and short term health concerns of working in the collision repair industry.

Toronto, Ontario — From October 24 through 29, Spanesi Americas hosted its first-ever Interactive Week, where the company virtually hosted OEMs, North American shopowners and collision repair experts for a week of thought-provoking sessions.

In this week's episode of Industry Insider, Collision Repair chatted with former Canadian racing champion Antoine Bessette to hear more about his company, FELINO Cars. Bessette, who was named Canadian Champion Race Driver of the year by the Ontario regional racing sanctioning body back in 2005, has since departed the lanes of the speedway, moving on to start his own sports car brand, FELINO, an en...

In this week's episode, Vince Matozzo, director of Canadian sales for CARSTAR, talks CCIF Toronto showcases, industry predictions for 2020 and CARSTAR's upcoming initiatives this year.

With Bell 'Let's Talk' Day having just passed, we took the opportunity this episode of the Industry Insider Podcast to shine a light on a topic that affects each and every person in the collision repair industry: mental health. Theresa Jachnychy, the business director at Gateway Autobody, joins us this week to discuss negative mental health and how it pertains to a collision repair workplace—the c...

On this episode of Collision Repair's Industry Insider, host Allison Rogers sits down with Paul Reichert, senior director of MSO and insurance services (Canada) for LKQ Corporation, to discuss some of the company's trending insights and outlooks for the future of the collision repair and automotive aftermarkets.

This week, Collision Repair’s Industry Insider sat down with Blaire Earle, director of business development for Impact Auto Auctions Canada, to learn more about the IAA Interact merchandising platform and how its features can provide trifold—and beyond—benefits to online buyers. Check out IAA's Merchandising Platform at https://www.impactauto.ca/​

Toronto, Ontario – This week on Industry Insider, we sat down with David Hosaki, product manager at Audatex Estimating Canada, to talk about new and hot tools for 2021, including Solera’s AI claims platform, Qapter. Qapter, Solera’s new end-to-end automotive claims workflow platform, streamlines the claims process by combining the company’s artificial intelligence with machine learning and deep le...

With the 365 day long speedbump called 2020 finally in the rearview, collision centres across Canada are finally able to turn part of their focus back to the burgeoning electric vehicle market that industry experts have long been predicting to boom in this new decade. It goes without saying that the previous year did not go according to anyone’s plan; consumer and corporation alike. But many colli...

Chicago, Illinois -- This week, Collision Repair's Allison Rogers sat down with Spanesi Americas COO Tim Morgan to learn more about the company's virtual tour of its U.S. Training Centre.

Collin Welsh, CARSTAR Canada's senior director of franchise development on supporting partners by Collision Repair Magazine

Toronto, Ontario -- This week, we sat down with Sylvain Seguin from Fix Network to talk about some of the big moves the company’s ProColor Collision banner is making. Sylvain and Fix Network have been busy jumping on opportunities across Canada to develop their family of brands which include ProColor Collision, Fix Auto, NOVUS Glass and Speedy Auto Service. Shops around the country are seeing the...

Toronto, Ontario -- On August 26, Collision Repair's Allison Rogers sat down with John Marlowe and Giuliano Bernabei, co-founders of Level 5 Drive.

Toronto, Ontario—This past week was a big one for Canadian network CSN Collision Centres as the network announced its merger with the U.S.-based 1Collision. This new union, deemed “a natural fit” by CSN, allows the two companies to offer a unified collision repair experience and claims management solution to the driving public and insurance industry throughout Canada, and the United States. To hea...

On this week's episode of Industry Insider, Collision Repair chatted with Naeem Hassan, owner of Calgary’s Central Auto Repair, to hear how his facility has stepped up to help its community in crisis. On June 13, Alberta experienced the costliest hailstorm in Canadian history, resulting in more than 1.2 billion dollars in insured damages. Hail as large as tennis balls wrought havoc on the province...

Toronto, Ontario -- In this week's episode of Industry Insider, we explore how retooling techniques pursued by Canada’s automotive industry could be made a common practice in the post-pandemic era.