Calling All Female Collision Repair Students: WIN Scholarship Application Deadline Is Jan. 15
WIN offers scholarships that will provide tuition assistance as well as educational opportunities and enrichment events to qualified applicants.
Expanded WIN Scholarship Program Opens Applications For 2014
The Women’s Industry Network (WIN) is committed to financially supporting individuals who demonstrate their desire to excel in the field of collision repair.
SEMA To Host Third Annual AkzoNobel Sustainability Leadership Symposium
The Sustainability Leadership Symposium is a progression of the FIT Sustainability Award. FIT, presented annually since 2009, recognizes the “Focus, Innovation and Talent” that businesses or organizations utilize to bring sustainable business solutions to the collision repair industry, according to the company.
AkzoNobel Reveals Plans For Industry’s First Sustainability Education Challenge Grant
The Sustainability Education Challenge Grant, administered in collaboration with the Collision Repair Education Foundation, is intended to stimulate awareness and thinking at the most basic and critical level of the industry: students with an aspiration to enter the collision repair industry. The grant will be made available to secondary and post-secondary educational institutions and students choosing to engage in activities that provide new and practical ways of thinking about sustainability, as well as tools that help advance the collective reduction of the carbon footprint in collision repair environments.
AkzoNobel Opens Nominations For 2013 FIT Sustainability Awards
The FIT award is presented to organizations and institutions that are on the leading-edge of this issue and are seeking to advance sustainable business practices within the collision repair industry. Past recipients have included the California Autobody Association, Enterprise Holdings and Keenan’s Autobody, each of which have been forerunners in their respective areas of the industry pertaining to the issue of sustainability.
AkzoNobel 2012 FIT Sustainability Award Presented in San Antonio
Oka’s Auto Body, Enterprise Rent-a-Car and Keenan Auto Body were recognized for their sustainability efforts.
AkzoNobel to Host Second Annual Sustainability Leadership Symposium in San Antonio, Texas
Deborah M. Steketee, Ph.D., associate professor of sustainable business and executive director for the Center of Sustainability at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Mich., will moderate the symposium.
AkzoNobel Reveals 2012 FIT Sustainability Award Honorees
The 2012 FIT Sustainability Award winners will be recognized at a special industry recognition program hosted by AkzoNobel on July 19 in San Antonio, Texas. The event coincides with the I-CAR Inter-Industry Conference and Collision Industry Conference (CIC) events.
NAPA Announces Group Formation to Bolster Collision Industry Leaders’ Business
Martin Senour Paints to help kick-off January meeting to establish new performance groups for NAPA AutoCare Collision Center owners.
Let Project Management Boost the Bottom Line
The next time you hear the words “bottom line” when you’re sitting in the audience at a company meeting, don’t roll your eyes. Instead, think about all the ways that you as a project manager can help to boost that bottom line.