Welcomes of the Week: Volvo and Dilawri open Volvo Cars Richmond; first VRSE in North America
Richmond, British Columbia — Southern British Columbia is now the site of one of Volvo’s most advanced facilities, as the Swedish automaker, alongside the Dilawri automotive group, announced the opening of North America’s first Volvo Retail Sustainable Experience (VRSE) facility. Formerly Volvo of Vancouver, this 20,383.4 square-foot Richmond, B.C. dealership received a major facelift in […]
Welcomes of the Week: CARSTAR St-Eustache
St-Eustache, Quebec — CARSTAR proudly announced the opening of a new collision repair facility in St-Eustache, Que. on Monday, officially bringing co-owners Simon Anderson and Stéphane Roussy into the fold. “We are elated to join such an outstanding network of operators,” Roussy said in a company press release. “It’s not often that you find organizations […]
Welcomes of the Week: CARSTAR Chicoutimi South
Chicoutimi, Québec — Meet the dynamic father-son duo that make up CARSTAR Chicoutimi South, as they join a new extended family as one of the network’s latest additions. With this latest opening, co-owners Sylvain and Jean-Sébastien Simard continue their conquest of the Chicoutimi repair market, now boasting a south end location to balance out its […]
Welcomes of the Week: UniglassPlus Rymal opens new location on Hamilton Mountain
Hamilton, Ontario — One of CARSTAR’s most long-standing locations has undergone an exciting new expansion as CARSTAR Hamilton Rymal welcomes the addition of a dedicated UniglassPlus storefront within its historic Hamilton Mountain facility. UniglassPlus Rymal will occupy a newly renovated section of the facility that manager Jose Florez says will help his shop more fully […]
Welcomes of the Week: Fix Auto Welland comes under new ownership
Welland, Ontario — The father-son collision repair dynamos known as John and Johnny D’Ambrosio are proud to announce that they are the new owners of Fix Auto Welland, marking the pair’s second repair centre in the network. The family has had a foothold in the St. Catharines, Ont. collision repair market for decades now, starting […]
Service Record: U.S. army veteran opens 1,000th repair facility under Driven Brands banner in Little Rock, Ark.
Toronto, Ontario — An auto body shop in Little Rock, Ark. just helped Driven Brands reach a major milestone, as the opening of CARSTAR Patriot Auto Body Little Rock marks the thousandth collision centre under the belt of the global auto repair group. The new facility will be headed up by a figure that Driven […]
Welcomes of the Week: CARSTAR Strathmore reopens
Strathmore, Alberta — The CARSTAR banner of collision repair centres is proud to announce that the same folks you’ve grown to trust for repairs in Strathmore, Alta. are still very much around and working out of a brand new facility inside Strathmore Ford. Operating manager, Janece Crocker, and director of operations, Steve Billings, have a […]
Family Affair: Paint Source opens Morningside location in Scarborough, Ont.
Scarborough, Ontario — The smell of homemade sausages and charcoal-grilled jerk chicken, the sound of the 80s new wave permeating throughout the shop and all-around beautiful weather set the scene for Paint Source Automotive Supplies’ grand opening on Friday afternoon. Co-owners Mathew John and Garen Ghougamanian bust open the doors to their brand new retail […]
