The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) awarded $100,000 through its SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund to 50 students and employees of member companies, the association announced Aug. 4. The total is the largest in the program’s history and the first to reach $100,000, up from the $99,500 awarded to 50 recipients in 2025 and the $99,000 […]
Michael Horne Named Chief Financial Officer at Certified Collision Group
Certified Collision Group has named Michael Horne chief financial officer, effective July 20. Horne brings more than a decade of financial leadership experience across private equity-backed, multi-entity organizations. He joins CCG from Babilou Family US, which operates as Little Sprouts, a multi-state, private equity-backed early education platform. There he led enterprise financial planning and analysis, […]
U.S. Traffic Volume Down in May Compared to 2025
First year-over-year monthly decline since February 2025 as pump prices reached their highest monthly average since July 2022. Traffic volume in May was down in the U.S. overall, the first year-over-year decline in monthly travel since February 2025, as gasoline prices continued to climb amid the war with Iran. Travel for the month of May […]
ASA Builds Rebooted NACE/CARS Around SPARK Repair-Knowledge Framework
The Automotive Service Association has organized its rebooted NACE and CARS event around a repair-education framework it calls SPARK — Safe Profitable Automotive Repair Knowledge — and has already begun releasing instructional videos under that name ahead of the Sept. 29 program in San Antonio. The framework ties the event to the documentation and procedural […]
Nearly Two-Thirds of Recreational Vehicles Stolen in 2025 Remain Unrecovered, NICB Reports
A total of 58,957 recreational vehicles were reported stolen to law enforcement in 2025, a 20% decline from the prior year, but approximately 63% of them have never been recovered, according to a new analysis from the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The category NICB tracks covers motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles and watercraft rather than motorhomes, […]
Collision Industry Foundation Seeks Trustee Candidates
The Collision Industry Foundation is accepting applications for its Board of Trustees through Sept. 30, with newly elected trustees taking office after the January 2027 board meeting. The foundation raises and distributes emergency aid to collision repair professionals who suffer significant losses in natural disasters and other catastrophic events, and its trustees set the fundraising […]
Fix Auto UK Creates Head of Service Delivery Role as It Targets 350 Repairers
Fix Auto UK has appointed regional business manager Steve Lawrence to the newly created role of head of service delivery, effective immediately, and will build a service delivery division around him as the franchise network pursues a target of 350 repairers within 10 years. Lawrence reports to Mark Hutchins, operations director for Fix Auto UK, […]
Consumer Sentiment Continued to Improve in Final July Reading
Index reaches a five-month high but stays below year-ago levels. Consumer sentiment rose 11.5% in July in the final reading from the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, with the Index of Consumer Sentiment revised up to 55.2 from the preliminary figure of 54.4. The index reached its highest level in five months but remained […]
ProColor Collision Adds North Hollywood Facility to Network
ProColor Collision has added a North Hollywood, Calif. collision repair facility, ProColor Collision NoHo to its U.S. network, converting the former Integrity Collision Center. The addition extends the brand’s buildout in the San Fernando Valley and the broader Los Angeles market. Owner Vrezh Isayan brings more than 40 years of collision repair experience to the […]
CCC Reports Second Quarter Revenue of $285.9 Million
AI Solutions Reach 11% of Sales CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CCCS) reported second quarter revenue of $285.9 million, an increase of 9.8% from $260.5 million a year earlier, as insurers and large collision repair operators moved artificial intelligence tools out of pilot programs and into production use. The Chicago-based software provider posted adjusted […]
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