AMN ON LOCATION: Taipei, Taiwan Site Of Unique Four-in-One Automotive, Motorcycle Shows
Counterman Editor Mark Phillips, who also serves as managing editor of aftermarketNews, is on location at the TAIPEI AMPA Show this week. Today, we share his first report from Taiwan.
Have Money. Need Product.
There’s nothing more agonizing than needing or wanting something and you can’t have access to it. Here he was, money ready in-hand, eagerly wanting to spend it but not being able to buy what he wanted.
Uni-Select Convention Attendees Hear How To Put ‘Rock And Roll’ Into Their Businesses
Uni-select President Richard Roy set the tone for the convention, held this week, by telling the independent jobbers and shop owners in attendance, “We intend to become the supplier of choice for the automotive aftermarket.”
Advance Auto Parts Professionals Event Helps Shops Create Customers For Life In Pittsburgh
The event, held Nov. 15-16 in downtown Pittsburgh at the historic Omni William Penn Hotel, featured an inviting trade show floor with vendors who explained and demonstrated their latest products and services.
Organic Growth, M&As Predicted At AASA’s Executive Breakfast
Kevin Freeland, chief operating officer of Advance Auto Parts, told a packed crowd at AASA’s Executive Breakfast Tuesday morning that brand matters and the company’s surge in commercial sales growth has been due to selling well-known name brand parts with solid reputations.
Tom Taylor, Named 2012 Counter Professional of the Year, Sponsored By Affinia, WIX And Raybestos Chassis
Each year, Counterman, a Babcox Media property, seeks nominations for the best of the best of automotive aftermarket parts pros. Taylor, who was nominated by his colleagues at Motown Automotive of Michigan, a Federated Auto Parts member where he is a manager, has traveled with his wife to AAPEX in Las Vegas for an all-expenses-paid trip.
aftermarketNews Weekly (Sept. 10-14, 2012)
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Federated Officially Kicks Off Partnership with Marine Toys for Tots at Federated Auto Parts 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race
With the check presented Saturday, Toys for Tots will reach 6,500 kids to provide toys at Christmas.
Federated Holds Annual Awards Banquet to Honor Top Vendors
Federal-Mogul’s Jay Burkhart inducted into the Vendor Hall of Fame; Jim Sechrist of Motown Automotive presented with the Art Fisher Memorial Award.
Transforming Processes is Name of the Game at Federated’s Annual Membership Meeting
Federated is making a big push to streamline the supply chain and automate sales activities that are currently labor-intensive, and is investing heavily in data warehousing all to bolster the bottom line, members heard at the group’s annual membership meeting taking place this week in Phoenix.
The Alliance Wraps Up One Convention, Sets Sights on Another
In a four-day event that ran March 21-24, the Alliance provided members with educational opportunities at 34 seminars as well as three days of vendor expo, inspirational speeches and entertainment.
Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance Brings the Magic to Florida
Adapting to change is something the automotive aftermarket must embrace if it’s going to keep doing battle to keep its share of the marketplace, John Washbish, president of Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance told a packed house at the organization’s tri-annual convention general session in Orlando Thursday.