By Philip Atkins, director, Strategic Research and Planning, Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association (AASA)
Is the aftermarket recovering faster than expected? Or are we seeing a welcome, but temporary, spike in sales? While the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continue to have a major impact on the automotive aftermarket industry,…
READ MOREby Taylor Mitchell, senior vice president, technology and standards, Auto Care Association
The pandemic has created challenges in virtually every aspect of our business and personal life. Plans and roadmaps that were well underway just a few months ago were wholly disrupted as efforts shifted towards moving a workforce to…
READ MOREBy Michael Chung, director, market intelligence, Auto Care Association
Anyone who looks at weather forecasts knows that they are the best predictions based on available data. And while we know that forecasts are not always accurate, we use them to guide our activities. Now more than ever, the auto care…
READ MOREBy Chris H. Gardner, Senior Vice President, AASA
The industry is facing challenging times, and we collectively are part of the effort to address the issues and help each other. It should encourage the industry to know that your trade associations – Auto Care Association and the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers…
READ MOREBy Jeff Buckley, Owner and Master Technician, My Father’s Shop Certified Automotive Repair, Midlothian, Texas
I’ve been in the industry for more than 35 years. I started in a service station and then had a big shop that did both mechanical and paint and body. For the last 26…
READ MOREBy Bill Hanvey, president and CEO, Auto Care Association
The year 2020 is off to an unusual start – and although the circumstances have been less than ideal, the reality of our current global health situation is that the world has come together in unprecedented ways.
Amid social distancing, we’re…
READ MOREBy Micheal Smyth, director of the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC), a program of the Energy Institute at West Virginia University
Editor’s note: This blog post is the last in a series leading up to AAPEX 2019 in Las Vegas, and highlights alternative fuels training sessions scheduled to take…
READ MOREBy John Chalifoux, President and COO, MERA, The Association for Sustainable Manufacturing
Remanufacturing can be simply defined as “manufacturing with reuse.” It is a manufacturing process that starts with original products, reuses key components, and yields finished goods that are “like new but better” than the originals. The finished goods…
READ MOREBy Larry Northup, AAP, AWDA Executive Director, Senior Director, Community Engagement, Auto Care Association
Customers make AAPEX successful. Without people and companies to purchase the products on display, there would be no reason for exhibitors to attend the show.
Fortunately, AAPEX draws a huge number of buyers to Las Vegas…
READ MOREBy Micheal Smyth, director of the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC), a program of the Energy Institute at West Virginia University
Editor’s note: This blog post is the third in a series leading up to AAPEX 2019 in Las Vegas, and highlights alternative fuels training sessions scheduled to take…
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