Will compete at global competition in Paris, France. Jeffrey Naugle, a paint technician for Glass and Sons Collision in Reading, Pa., took home first place at this year’s North American Finals for the R-M Best Painter Contest that was held in Whitehouse, Ohio, on February 26-27. A panel of industry experts judged contestants during the […]
Automechanika Launches World Championship Refinish Competition
Automechanika announced it is holding the first international Body & Paint competition in the exhibition’s history in association with DeBeer Refinish, Octoral and SATA. Body shop professionals will be competing against one another at six Automechanika shows worldwide, from England to China. The national event winners will then travel to Frankfurt for the grand finale […]
Safelite’s Rick Beasley Wins Belron Global Auto Glass Technician Competition
In front of more than 1,500 people including 550 customers, suppliers and colleagues, the 30 best Belron technicians from around the world competed to win the title “Best of Belron”. This year’s top technician was Rick Beasley from Safelite’s Kenosha Service Center in Wisconsin. The competitors represented 15,000 Belron technicians who carry out 11.7 million […]
BASF Presents Winner of 2018 Detroit Middlecott Sketchbattle
Shubham Singh, a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, won the 2018 Detroit Middlecott Sketchbattle Experiment presented by BASF. Singh won $2,500 and a championship belt designed by Mob Steel. Introduced in 2012, the experiment is Detroit’s “Fight Club of Design,” an underground, automotive industry event developed to identify emerging car design […]
UK Competition Authority Proposes LKQ Subsidiary Sell Locations to Satisfy Competition Concerns
CMA wants Euro Car Parts to divest locations in 10 cities to satisfy competition concerns with its acquisition of Andrew Page. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the United Kingdom yesterday detailed concerns it has with LKQ Corporation subsidiary Euro Car Parts’ October 2016 acquisition of competitor Andrew Page. Both companies sell car parts […]
SkillsUSA Collision Repair and Automotive Refinish Medalists Named
High school students from Sentinel Career and Technology Center in Tiffin, Ohio take Gold in both collision repair and automotive refinish contests. The winners of the annual SkillsUSA Championships in Collision Repair Technology and Automotive Refinish Technology were announced Friday evening, June 23, at the Awards Ceremony of the National Leadership and Skills Conference. The Conference […]
Solera Proposes Sale of E3 Technical in UK to Satisfy Competition Authorities Concerns on Autodata Acquisition
UK Authority will consider proposal to divest technical information provider to preserve competition. The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced yesterday that it is considering proposals from Solera to overcome competition concerns over its January acquisition of Autodata. According to the CMA, Solera has proposed to sell E3 Technical, which is part of […]
UK Competition Authority Launches In-Depth Investigation into LKQ Subsidiary Acquisition
The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today that it was launching an in-depth review of Euro Car Parts’ acquisition of Andrew Page. The possibility of the in-depth review was announced earlier this month by the CMA On May 11, the CMA announced that it would refer the deal for an in-depth investigation […]
Solera Acquisition of Autodata Faces Possible In-Depth Probe by UK Competition Authority
Solera Holdings Inc. acquisition of Autodata faces an in-depth merger probe, unless it offers acceptable ways of addressing competition concerns raised by regulators in the United Kingdom. Solera announced it was acquiring Autodata in January and was completed in February. The companies supply vehicle maintenance and repair information platforms across the UK and the Competition […]
LKQ Subsidiary Acquisition Faces Possible In-Depth Probe by UK Competition Authority
The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today that Euro Car Parts’ acquisition of Andrew Page faces an in-depth merger probe, unless it offers acceptable ways of addressing competition concerns. Euro Car Parts, the UK-based subsidiary of LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) announced in October 2016 it was acquiring Andrew Page Limited, a distributor of […]