NEWS Assured Automotive on the Grow Assured Automotive recently announced the acquisition of two new facilities, one in Hamilton and one in Kitchener, Ontario. Assured Hamilton Mountain is located at 2179 Upper James Street and Assured Kitchener-Waterloo is located at 1295 Courtland Avenue East. “We are extremely excited with the addition of our Hamilton and Kitchener facilities,” said Tony Canade, president of Assured Automotive. “Our expansion into these markets is in keeping with Assured’s growth strategy and consistent with our commitment to better serve our insurance and dealer partners,” Canade added. Assured is an organization of corporately owned collision repair centres with 35 locations in the Greater Toronto and surrounding area.
Mike Spano (left) and Dan Krouse (right) from Assured Automotive Hamilton Mountain.
Emina Husic and Rob Faucher from Assured Automotive Kitchener-Waterloo.
Why Should I Convert My Body Shop To A Maaco? Maaco is ranked #1 in its category by Entrepreneur Magazine in its Franchise 500 List
Haldon Introduces Four Layer Booth Wrap Haldon Company recently introduced Booth Wrap 4x, a four-layer paint booth protection system that guards a spray booth’s interior from over spray and dust. The adhesive wrap can be applied in about two hours to a new or recently repainted booth. When the film becomes dirty you simply peel the top layer off to reveal the next, clean, layer of the wrap. The film can be applied by hand. Haldon also offers an applicator brush and dispenser to make the job easier. “We’ve been selling it as a single layer for ten years,” said Mark Hall as he demonstrated the product at Budds’ Collision.
CANADA HAS CHOSEN ITS BODY SHOP
Maaco has a Canada-wide 97.4% customer satisfaction rating [measured by CSI Complete]
Maaco receives 75% of its business through retail out-of-pocket customer pay
Mark Hall demonstrating Booth Wrap 4x in Budds’ spraybooth.
“At NACE we introduced a laminated film. So now you have a 3mm base layer with three 1.2mm layers on top of it.” According to Haldon, using the Booth Wrap 4x can reduce standard application downtime by 75 per cent.
Macco services more than 500,000 customers / year in North America [572 more customers / year per shop on average than a traditional body shop]
Maaco Canada average store volume = $1 Million PLUS Half of Maaco’s Canadian shops achieve average sales of over $1.4 million annually with a 12% average net profit
Canada Has Chosen Maaco,
Chip Foose and Peter Klutt Unveil Super-Powered Super Cuda
Now It’s Your Turn.
BASF Automotive Refinish Solutions hosted the unveiling of Dream Car Garage’s latest project at SEMA 2009. Show host Peter Klutt (right in photo) was on hand as well as legendary car designer and host of TLC’s Overhaulin’ Chip Foose (left), who designed the car’s look. The car, with a bright green finish courtesy of Foose Signature Colors, has since been clocked at 335 km/h.
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