April 26, 2011
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In This Issue
* Sherwin-Williams launches vision group
* Kent Automotive preferred vendor to Carstar
* Pro-Spray's new 3.5 basecoat system
* Collision Repair Around the World

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A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested recently and charged with stealing a pickup truck off of a dealer's lot. He allegedly had forged an owner's credential for the truck at another dealership and obtained a duplicate key, allowing him to drive the truck off the second dealer's lot. However, when he made the original bogus credentials, he used his own name and photograph, making him easy to catch. 
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Greetings!

 

I hope you had a good Easter holiday. If you don't celebrate Easter, then I hope you still enjoyed some time off work.

One last reminder that registration for the first annual Rick Berg Invitational Golf Tournament will close  in just a few days, on April 30, 2011. It will take place May 19 at the Forest City National Golf Club in London, Ontario. Proceeds from the tournament will go to the Epilepsy Support Centre.

Please visit epilepsysupportcentre.com/rickberg to register, donate, become a sponsor or for more information.
  

See you next week. Take care,

- Mike Davey
Editor, Collision Repair magazine
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Around the town
Sherwin-Williams launches first Canadian vision group

The Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes A-Plus Network is an exclusive group of collision repair facilities that reflect the industry's highest standards. These collision repair facilities are part of Sherwin-Williams' value added program that combines comprehensive business solutions to help the facilities improve customer service, employee growth, insurance relationships, process refinement, productivity and profitability.

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News
Kent Automotive named preferred vendor by Carstar

Kent Automotive, a supplier of more than 30,000 automotive products, was selected as a preferred vendor by Carstar Automotive Canada. As a preferred vendor, Kent Automotive will provide Carstar stores with products and services including body hardware, shop supplies, safety supplies, storage solutions, cutting tools and cost recovery software products.

 

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Bernard offers video product demonstrations

Bernard has announced that it will now be featuring product information, demonstrations and customer testimonials on its new YouTube Channel, The Bernard Difference.

   

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Carstar Markham launches Re-Invention Tour

Carstar Markham is on a quest to become one of the leading collision centres in Canada. The company is inviting members of the insurance and collision industries to tour its location between April 4th - 29th.

   

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Pro-Spray's new 3.5 VOC Solvent Basecoat System

Pro-Spray Automotive Finishes has introduced an alternative for meeting low basecoat/clearcoat VOC requirements; the new Pro-Spray 3.5 VOC Solvent Basecoat System.

   

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Features
Collision Repair Around The World

Collision repair isn't universal. The fundamentals are the same-we all want a vehicle to come back from a repair as good as new-but the standards, procedures and practices vary widely depending where and when the vehicle gets repaired. As a result, different markets can look like parallel collision repair universes-a view into how it would look if we did things a little differently. All of which can tell us a lot about what we're doing, and how we should be doing...

 

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Sincerely,
 

The Collision Repair Team.