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Collision Repair’s Industry Insider: Michel Matte of BMW Group Canada

Collision Repair Radio

October 24, 2019

On this week’s Industry Insider, we speak with Michel Matte, an executive at BMW Group Canada to look deeper into the company’s scholarship program and how it could set a precedent to other OEM’s in the future.

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