• Solus announces gold partnership with AutoRaise
    • 25/05/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Solus has underlined its commitment to helping young people thrive within the automotive industry through a gold partnership with AutoRaise. By working together, the organisations hope to equip more people with the essential skills to repair modern vehicles safely and professionally. The AutoRaise charity was [...]
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  • Solus names new COO
    • 14/09/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Solus ARC has appointed Clare Davies as its chief operating officer. She will report to Simon Smith, Solus managing director and Aviva repair lead. Davies joins Solus with more than 25 years’ experience within claims and operations and more recently in supply chain management. She will play a key part in [...]
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  • Smith renews gender equality support
    • 28/04/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Simon Smith, Solus managing director and Aviva repair lead, has renewed his membership of the Automotive 30% Club. The club aims to achieve a better gender balance within the automotive industry by filling at least 30% of key leadership positions in member organisations with diverse women by 2030. He said: [...]
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  • Copart announces new skills exchange programme
    • 06/01/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Copart has introduced a new student exchange programme with Solus, the repair arm of Aviva Insurance. The collaboration has been introduced to provide engineers in both businesses, including trainees and apprentices, with the opportunity to upskill and build a greater knowledge of each other’s roles as part of [...]
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  • Solus MD joins Automotive 30% Club
    • 04/06/2021
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Solus Accident Repair Centre managing director Simon Smith has become the latest member to join the Automotive 30% Club. The voluntary network of chief executives and managing directors from across the UK-based automotive network has a target of placing women in a minimum of 30% of key leadership roles within its [...]
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  • Solus opens Castleford site
    • 01/06/2021
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Solus Accident Repairs has opened the doors to its newest site in Castleford, West Yorkshire, today. The site, based on Alpine Court, Blue Ridge Park, will be the second Solus Accident Repair centre to open this year alone, taking the company’s total site portfolio to 20. Simon Smith, managing director and [...]
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  • Solus success leads to recruitment drive
    • 13/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The future of vehicle crash repair looks to be in capable hands at Solus Accident Repair Centres, as the nationwide network of accident repair centres owned and operated by Aviva announces the next phase of its apprenticeship strategy with the start of a new drive to recruit a new generation of repair [...]
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