ARC360 Podcast

Series 2, Episode 4 of the ARC360 webinar sees us catch up with three more key industry personalities to discuss current market conditions; delve further into the evolution of the industry; explore the opportunities amongst all the challenges; and discuss what might lie ahead in Q4 and beyond.

Featuring: 

Three very different perspectives yet all key to the workings of the industry.

This week we have the pleasure of talking to Milton Keynes’ based trainer, Rob Ward of IMI accredited RWC Training Centre to mark his three decades within the vehicle repair sector.

ARC360: back to normality?

ARC360's bi-weekly webinar catch-up on how the automotive incident repair industry is finding its feet in the 'new norm'.

This webinar sees us catch up on the latest from across the sector including current trends; how the new restrictions may impact; and a look at how the market continues to evolve. We’ll explore the hot topics, once again resurfacing across the sector as well as look ahead to ask what Q4 and Q1 2021 might have in store, and are the goalposts beginning to move?

Plus, we will once again be looking for attendees to get involved via interactive polling, Q&As and shared dialogue.

This week's panellists:

Andrew Eade, Network Strategy and Cost Manager, First Central

Lee Wallbank, managing director, iRG

Kevern Thompson, commercial manager, CAPS

On this week’s ARC360 podcast we catch up with multi-Fix Auto UK site owner Sam Smith who provides a thoroughly entertaining insight into his journey from car-washing teenager to travel industry computer-programming expert through to now heading up the successful family business. Sam discusses why simplicity is the key; shares his thoughts on why ‘busy’ might not mean good; and highlights how ‘problems’ create opportunities to improve.

This week we catch up with three very different vehicle repair entities to explore business developments and what the future has in store.

ARC360: back to normality? The repairers' perspective

Sam Smith, director, Fix Auto 

Frixos Charalambous, managing director, Exan 

Jordan Fisher, managing director, Axiom UK

We catch up with head of network at Innovation Group, Richard Ketley to find out more about his working life; how things have changed in the past few months; and what the future might hold.

ARC360 podcast is brought to you in association with corporate partners: BASF, BMS, Copart, EMACS, Entegral, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Nationwide Vehicle Recovery Assistance, S&G Response, Sherwin Williams and CAPS; partners The Green Parts Specialists, Indasa, and Innovation Group; and strategic partners AutoRaise; NBRA; RepairTalks; and TrendTracker.

Having taken a break for August, we get straight back to business in our bid to track the evolution of the sector. How does the industry currently look from three very different perspectives? What has happened during our break? And what are your thoughts on the current status quo?

Recorded 2 September 2020, this week we catch-up with:

• Mike Partridge, paint and body business manager, Volkswagen Group UK Ltd

We catch up with freelance health, safety, environmental and people specialist, Julie Eley to discuss the 'human side' of getting back to business.

We catch up with Bob Linwood, CEO of AutoRaise to find out more about the charity; discuss the impact of the pandemic; get the lowdown on trailblazers; and gain an exclusive insight into the 'stepping up' campaign.

ARC360’s weekly catch-up on how the automotive incident repair industry is re-emerging in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recorded 29 July 2020, this week we catch-up with:

• Phill Blowers, commercial director, Indasa Abrasives (UK) Ltd