Reuters: Solera not satisfied with offers yet; Thoma Bravo, IHS among possible suitors
— September 12, 2015AudaExplore and Audatex parent company Solera hasn’t received a sweet enough offer yet from Thoma
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Business Practices
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Why a body shop should care about its Yelp presence, and how to manage it for free
— September 11, 2015Online reviews are becoming more relevant each year, and collision repairers who fail to claim or maintain
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I-CAR guest column: What matters most to customers picking an auto body shop
— September 10, 2015Editor’s note: In the latest in a new I-CAR column series on industry issues, marketing Senior Director
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Performance Gateway focus to be Enterprise fleet repairers, MSOs, insurers
— September 10, 2015Performance Gateway will wind down its work with automakers and focus on measuring KPIs for insurers,
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Bloomberg: AudaExplore parent Solera nearing $3.6B sale
— September 10, 2015Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg Business reported Wednesday that Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity Partners
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Survey: Nearly 40% of shops aren’t consistently paid for mandatory coating removal
— September 8, 2015About 40 percent of collision repair facilities surveyed weren’t guaranteed compensation from
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Repairer criticizes CCC for requiring manual entry of common roofline refinishing work
— September 8, 2015A prominent collision repairer has blasted CCC for its refusal to join its competitors and include
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Developers, auditors of NSF’s collision repair standards have background in insurance, MSOs, aftermarket
— September 4, 2015Though a new certification program which equates quality repairs with following OEM procedures (if not
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Update: Yahoo Autos fixes post about bug spray ruining car paint
— September 4, 2015We don’t know if we can take credit, but a Yahoo Autos post we’d criticized for an erroneous
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With eye towards usage-based insurance, GM to allow OnStar users to share data with Verisk
— September 4, 2015General Motors will let OnStar users opt-in to share driving data with insurance risk data provider
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