December 7, 2010
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In This Issue
* About the town (Video Edition!)
* Pro Body Parts launches its 2nd annual industry food drive
* Boyd group revenue up 32 per cent thanks to new US locations
* IBIS 2011 momentum grows
* Look who's 40

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Greetings!

As I'm writing this, the window near my desk is threatening to glaze over with snow, which is good news for area collision repairers (you may be hearing from me soon, in fact, unless get back into the swing of winter driving).

Looking at the weather report, much of eastern Canada is facing a similar forecast: snow. Let's hope it keeps up and that we'll get a regular winter this year.

My question to you is how's it impacting business so far this year? Is it back to normal? Better than expected?

Even better: do you have any tips for the community about staying on top of the rush?

If you look to the left you'll see the link to our Twitter page. If you are on Twitter, consider sending an answer that way (use the @collisionmag tag and we'll push it out to all our followers).

Or there's always good old fashion email; send a note to [email protected] and I can push it out to the community on your behalf. (If you include a link to your business's website I can make sure to link to it.)

Just a thought.


See you next week. Take care,

-Joe Rayment
Editor, Collision Repair Magazine
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About the town (Video Edition!)
Jay AdairA conversation with Copart CEO Jay Adair

We recently had a chance to sit down Copart CEO Jay Adair to talk about the history of their online buying initiatives as well as their most recent upgrades. Take a look to see some of that conversation.



Jonathan BarrickGFS on new products


In the latest of our video conversations from NACE 2010, Global Finishing Solutions' Jonathan Barrick talks about some of the new products they have to offer.

Pro Body Parts launches its 2nd annual industry food drive

Pro Body Parts is getting in the Christmas spirit again; they're kicking off their second annual industry food drive. When they began this new tradition last year they had outstanding success, raising about $7000 in non-perishable food items and unwrapped gifts for families in need in BC's Lower Mainland. All together, they collected three tons of food for families in need in BC and Alberta.
Boyd group revenue up 32 per cent thanks to new US locations

Boyd Group Income Fund recently reported that its sales for the third quarter of 2010 increased by 32.1 per cent to $69 million from $52.2 million in Q3 2009, primarily due to two months of sales contribution from True2Form Collision Repair Centers, Inc, acquired at the end of July.

IBIS 2011 momentum grows

As momentum for the forthcoming International Bodyshop Industry Symposium--IBIS 2011--gathers pace conference director David Lingham offered an update on next May's Symposium. "IBIS 2011 takes place next May (16-18) in Barcelona, at the fabulous Hotel Arts Barcelona," Lingham said. "Although the collision repair market has been facing tough times, I have been sensing a new mood of optimism of late. We've got six of the maximum ten IBIS sponsors already confirmed, with global paint giants AkzoNobel and BASF joining existing sponsors 3M, Audatex, Enterprise and Thatcham, and in recent weeks we had a number of new inquiries from other major players seriously interested in sponsoring IBIS 2011."

Features
Look who's 40

Midtown Auto Body: a generation's worth of excellence.

Sincerely,
 

The Collision Repair Team.