Australian consolidator AMA buys No. 1 auto body chain Gemini; deal worth up to $71.3M
— September 14, 2015The AMA Group announced today it would buy Australia’s No. 1 collision repair company Gemini, a
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Vista Equity to buy AudaExplore/Audatex parent company Solera for $6.5B
— September 14, 2015Vista Equity will buy AudaExplore and Audatex parent company Solera for $6.5 billion, a huge markup from
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PDA boasts of $330M in savings to insurers — from your shops, OEMs, supply chain
— September 14, 2015A news release Wednesday from Property Damage Appraisers boasts of saving insurance companies $330 million, calling
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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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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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