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Honda announces three new appointments
- 26/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Honda announced three new appointments and the departure of Tom Lynch as press officer and David Rogers as motorcycles PR manager. John O’Brien has started as press fleet officer with immediate effect; Iain Baker as the motorcycle PR manager, replacing David Rogers; and Celine Plum joins as communications manager [...] -
VW invests in mobility technology
- 26/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The mobility of the future is being created by consistent research and strategic development. The SEDRIC autonomous concept car, self-driving transport units for goods deliveries, learning assistance systems, augmented-reality technology for enhanced safety in road traffic, 3D printing procedures, the [...] -
Service King celebrates 37 graduates
- 26/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Service King Collision Repair Centers celebrated the graduation of 37 apprentice technicians as part of its apprentice development program. The graduation celebrations took place at Service King locations in seven different states across the US as the organization continues its commitment to training and developing [...] -
Women can lead automotive future
- 26/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Joining the debate on gender equality, in support of International Women in Engineering Day, the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has found that only 20% of jobs in the automotive retail industry are currently occupied by women. Statistics show that 54% of all apprenticeships starts were women in 2016/17. [...] -
IMI awards CPD certificates
- 26/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has announced it will be awarding Continual Professional Development (CPD) certificates to visitors who attend the live training and learning seminars of the whole damage repair process at Automechanika Frankfurt. Messe Frankfurt has once again worked closely with [...] -
Anexo joins AIM market
- 25/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Anexo Group will be valued at £110m when it joins the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. Anexo is raising the funds to grow its share in a consolidating market. The group wants to hire new solicitors and legal assistants, bring more barristers in-house, and set up a new regional office to expand coverage and [...] -
AkzoNobel recreates Van Gogh painting
- 25/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
AkzoNobel experts have used vehicle refinish colour-matching technology to help with the digital recreation of Van Gogh’s painting Field with Irises near Arles. It’s the closest anyone has come to reconstructing the original colour scheme used by the artist when he first made the painting. By adopting a [...] -
Historic drive by Saudi woman
- 25/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Female racing driver Aseel Al Hamad celebrated the end of the ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia with a lap of honour in a Jaguar F-TYPE. Aseel, the first female board member of the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation, had never driven on a track in her home country before. Aseel joined Jaguar in a call for the 24 [...] -
VW CV opens Trafford Park facility
- 25/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is celebrating the opening of a brand-new purpose–built authorised repairer workshop on Trafford Park in Manchester. The new Inchcape facility is the largest in the UK and one of the largest in Europe, measuring in at 21,000sqft, and boasting 16 service ramps, an MOT facility and a [...] -
AkzoNobel backs ARC apprentices
- 22/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
AkzoNobel has helped The ARC Group apprentices to achieve their automotive senior paint technician accreditation (ATA) at its state-of-the-art training centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire. Mick Finch, technical coordinator at AkzoNobel, helped guide the apprentices through their ATA-accredited training programme as part [...]