eBay Motors Launches New Tools To Simplify Online Auto Parts Shopping
eBay has announced its latest auto feature, Shop by Diagram, which lets shoppers use interactive schematics to determine which parts are necessary and then quickly makes the exact items they need available for purchase.
Vertical Development Adds Near Real-Time Inventory And Stock Status Updates To ShowMeTheParts
The auto-update inventory feature downloads the inventory and stock status automatically at regular intervals from once each day at a set time to as often as every hour.
Jiffy-tite Signs Endorsed Product Sponsorship With DIESEL Motorsports
Jiffy-tite manufactures quick-connect fluid fittings for performance and OE automotive applications from its Lancaster, New York, headquarters.
Extensive Advanced Training Opportunities Will Be Available at 2012 Automechanika
For the first time, this year’s Automechanika will offer a special platform for basic and advanced training and will issue attendance certificates for a variety of courses, including paintwork and body repairs.
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NGK Spark Plugs Announces New Executive Team
NGK Spark Plugs (U.S.A.) Inc. has announced the promotions of Kazuhiro Tsuzuki to executive vice president, Richard Sullivan to senior vice president, Bob Pepper to senior vice president, Michael Schwab to senior vice president and Kent Howard to vice president. Their respective promotions became effective Aug. 1.
NGK Spark Plugs (U.S.A.) Announces New President
Norihiko Adachi has held numerous positions throughout his many years with NGK, including assignments in Europe and the U.S., moving up steadily throughout the years. His role before the promotion was general manager, sales & marketing, Headquarters, Automotive Components Groups, Japan. During his time as general manager, Adachi was instrumental in overseeing all sales and marketing efforts.
SEMA Awards More Than $130,000 in Scholarships
The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) is awarding 93 students more than $130,000 in scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year. The SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund began awarding scholarships to students pursuing careers in the automotive industry in 1984. As a benefit of SEMA membership, SEMA also presented the Loan Forgiveness Scholarship Award to qualified graduates with outstanding student loans, who have worked at a SEMA member company for at least one year.
U.S. Carmakers Are Adopting Simplicity as a Path to Recovery
Henry Ford, who created the automotive industry’s first mass-market hit with the Model T a century ago, was a proponent of radical simplicity. In fact, Ford became famous for saying his customers could have the $825 Model T in any color — so long as it was black. Since the first Model T appeared in 1908, Ford’s vision of top-down efficiency has been swamped by thousands of feature and color combinations on new cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles. A result, executives say, has been higher production and inventory costs and headaches for customers and dealers in sorting through a complex matrix of choices. Ford Motor and the other U.S. automakers are now going back to black, embracing the spirit of Ford’s notion in response to mounting losses and the risk of a deeper downturn in the United States in 2008.
Yoshihiko Yamada Appointed President of DENSO Sales California
Yoshihiko Yamada has been appointed president of DENSO’s unit in Long Beach, CA, DENSO Sales California. Yamada had been president of DENSO International Thailand since January 2005. Yamada has 30 years of experience with DENSO and has held various management positions in Japan, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore as well as his previous assignment in Thailand.