APA Annual Meeting Delivers On Multiple Accounts
While the meeting got jump-started with a golf tournament on Thursday, central to the program’s mission were the Manufacturer One-on-Ones held Friday, where APA shareholder members met with APA vendors to discuss concerns or issues and garner business-building ideas.
LDN to Hold Annual Fun Walk & Run at AAIA Spring Leadership Days
Funds raised for the Fun Walk & Run will go toward automotive scholarships through the Global Automotive Aftermarket Symposium (GAAS) scholarship program.
Transamerican Adds Exclusive Jobber Event to Truck & Jeep Fest
Transamerican Wholesale’s Wholesale Expo offers jobbers special wholesale pricing and hourly giveaways, all while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in a relaxed atmosphere.
MATS 2008 Continues Its ‘Large’ Tradition
The Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS), which claims to be the largest such event in the world, drawing total attendance of 76,563 trucking industry professionals over the three-day event, was held last month in Louisville, Ky. The show’s 1.2 million-square-foot floor featured 1,174 exhibitors from 12 countries. Attendees came from all 50 U.S. states and 48 countries.
Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes to Celebrate 200th Store Opening
Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes Corp. (SWAFC) has announced that a grand opening ceremony will take place on Friday, Sept. 21 in Calumet Park, IL, to mark the opening of the company’s 200th automotive finishes store. Local dignitaries and Sherwin-Williams executives will cut the ribbon at the newest location in Calumet Park, which is outside the city of Chicago. The day-long celebration will feature the #8 Budweiser car, driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr., the Champ Car DP01 Show car, food and beverages, prizes and giveaways.
ATE Launches Go Premium! Promotion
Continental Teves, a leading supplier of automotive aftermarket brake products, is encouraging its aftermarket customers to “Go Premium!” with its latest ATE promotion. The promotion automatically enters customers into a drawing to win a premium getaway to the Bahamas. ATE distributors nationwide will have the opportunity to win an all-expense paid trip to Nassau, Bahamas, for six days and seven nights each time they spend $10,000 on ATE premium brake products between June 1 and Aug. 31. Distributors also will be eligible for volume discounts on ATE brake products during the promotion.
CARS 2005 Provided Education, Networking, Entertainment
Hundreds gathered during Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week (AAIW) at the 2005 Congress of Automotive Repair and Service (CARS) held at The Mirage in Las Vegas. CARS, in conjunction with the Automotive Service Association’s (ASA) Mechanical Division, is held annually during Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week (AAIW) and focuses on education while also offering entertainment and networking opportunities.
CARS 2004 Sets Attendance Record
The Automotive Service Association has reported that a new attendance record was set with this year’s Congress of Automotive Repair and Service (CARS). More than 700 people were in attendance at this year’s show, held at the Flamingo Las Vegas during Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week (AAIW). CARS is the premier event of the Automotive Service Association’s (ASA) Mechanical Division.
DST Asks: Is Your Company Part of a Technology Users’ Group
Scientists can’t actually agree on when mankind first discovered fire. Some think as recently as 100,000 years ago, but others claim evidence of campfires as old as 1.6 million years by carbon-dating them. In any case, whenever fire was discovered, everyone is in agreement that the first thing needed was a users’ group to share knowledge and techniques about this new, mysterious technology. Cavemen and their cavewomen traveled far and wide to assemble and discuss fire and trade new ideas and stories about its benefits. Can’t you just imagine the program agenda for that first Users’ Group? Probably workshops with titles like “Cooked Meat: A Whole New Paradigm” and “Heating Your Cave: Why a Chimney is a Good Idea” and “Stay Awake after Dark with a New Source of Light.”
Walker Exhaust Announces Special Spring Trade Promotion
Walker Exhaust is offering a special spring trade promotion that enables undercar professionals to earn $25 gift cards, be entered into weekly $500 cash giveaways and participate in a sweepstakes drawing for a premium home theater system.