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Growing with Affiliates
I am often impressed by the level of passion within our industry to always push forward and grow with the fast paced changes in vehicle design and technology advancements. Recent growth within CCG and the opportunities that present themselves every day because of this passion is exciting.
We see more great repairers at capacity today than ever before, so our value proposition is evolving to meet the needs of our affiliates. I could not be more pleased about our products and services discounts and rebate offerings. These will help make every CCG affiliate gain a stronger bottom line to get the most out of the repair volumes they are seeing.
I look forward to seeing everyone at SEMA!
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Partnership Agreement News From Procurement VP
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Provider Roll-Out Coming Soon!
CCG is pleased to announce the execution of partnership purchasing agreements with not less than 13 vendor/providers to the automotive collision space, kicking off CCG's National Preferred Vendor program that provides added value in discounts and/or rebates to our Affiliates.
We are currently in discussions with an additional 30-plus vendors for programs that will provide significant additional strength to CCG's unique value proposition and model. Our goal is to build a comprehensive Preferred Vendor program for dozens of collision repair products, services and equipment providers that creates the industry's strongest return on investment for those eligible collision repair organizations selected to become CCG Affiliates.
Newly signed agreements with the following companies and announcements regarding how each works is coming very soon:
- 3M - All automotive aftermarket products
- Auto Data Labels - VIN labels and other vehicle safety labels
- BASF - Paint
- Collision Diagnostic Services - asTech remote vehicle scanning
- ECS - VIN labels and other vehicle safety labels
- Enterprise - Car rental referrals
- Eurovac - Dust and fume extraction equipment
- Garmat - Paint booths
- Gravity Payments - Credit card processing
- Kent Automotive - Fasteners
- Polyvance (Formerly Urethane Bumper Supply) - Nitrogen plastic welding equipment
- Vehicle Service Group (Chief, Elektron, Globaljig and Chassis Liner) - Frame, measuring and welding equipment
- Wurth - Fasteners
Diligent work is underway on our CCG Purchasing Manual, that you soon will be able to access. We will keep you informed regarding its progress, letting you know when it is live. In the interim, for more information regarding how CCG's Preferred Vendor programs may be able to provide savings and ROI today, please contact me directly.
If you are getting ready to make a purchase decision, especially on equipment, we strongly urge you to reach out to us first... as we just saved one of our affiliates $1,400 on welders!
Mr. Ernie Laky - Vice President of Procurement
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Update from the Insurance Services Group
CCG's Insurance Services Group (ISG) continues to secure an average of 2-3 DRP's per Affiliate location, even as our Affiliate locations count grows at a rapid pace. For third quarter of 2016, the ISG secured agreements to add 53 new insurer accounts into our 65+ locations. Return on investment against CCG's low fees structure, coupled with economies of scale and rebate benefits, is now well-proven in today's highly competitive landscape.
We now have strategic partnerships in place whereby we provide a locator and value summary for each Affiliate monthly - offering highly qualified DRP additions to not less than 11 national insurance carrier partners. Additions include Top-5 consolidator-level implementations, as well as Tier I, II and III coveted DRP's across the U.S.
Our ISG continues to hold discussions with an additional 15+ DRP-centric carriers. These meetings drive home the importance of partnering with Affiliates who have made the investments in people, training, and equipment relative to acquiring and maintaining OE certification programs and badges. Forward-thinking carriers we are engaged with understand they will need the very strongest performing, independent, OE certified operators to help them compete and service their policyholder customer bases into the future. They can find and acquire them under CCG's single, stable, and differentiated umbrella.
We expect SEMA to lead us into a strong fourth quarter of 2016 for DRP implementations, and additional paths to do so with insurers that see the significance of CCG's very unique group and network model.
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Valued Affiliate
As a single location collision repair facility, we continue to be impressed by the level of inter-industry connectivity, relationships, and visibility CCG offers and provides to our organization. We are committed long-term to CCG.
- Maria Carrillo, Carrillo and Sons Collision, San Diego, CA
Participation in the CCG Network has been a very positive experience for our shop. We are excited about the new rewards programs as well that will further assist us in leveling the playing field in our market.
- Tom Gregg,
Platinum Collision,
Corona CA
SEMA Show
For those attending SEMA in Las Vegas from October 31 - November 4, we highly encourage your attendance to the OEM Collision Repair Tech Summit, as part of the SCRS Repairer Driven Education Series.
"The OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit is one of the most unique networking and learning opportunities available to the collision repair industry, designed to put SEMA show attendees in a room with innovators in automotive structural design and technology. The Summit's focus is on emerging trends in vehicle construction and technology and how both of those aspects influence vehicle repairability and collision industry preparation."
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Recent news we don't want you to miss:
U.S. Length of Rental Upward Trend Continues in Third Quarter According to the latest research from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the U.S. collision repair industry's average length of rental continued to increase in the third quarter of 2016... Read more here
GM Repair Insights: GM will train staff for free in shop; offers truck, SUV 'belt-cut only' door info General Motors announced in its latest GM Repair Insights that it will move its InShop Clinics out of delarships or training centers into any collision repair shop that wants the lesson... Read more here
Carey: Forget future 'sexy' self-driving cars. ADAS will change collision repair ecosystem in 3.3 years In a little more than three years, the "fairly dramatic impact" on frequency and severity coming from advanced driver-assistance systems should be palpable across the entire collision repair ecosystem, an expert noted Thursday... Read more here
Support for giving Calif. BAR oversight over 'minor' repairs reflects complexity of today's cars As cars grow more complicated and technologically advanced - but still manage to bang themselves up in accidents - collision repairers and auto insurers are trying to determine what they can still treat as "minor" damage... Read more here
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Mr. Bruce Bares - President and CEO
602.471.3068 Mobile/Text
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503.477.2535 Mobile/Text
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Mr. Ernie Laky - Vice President of Procurement
816.807.4478 Mobile/Text
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Mr. Bob Cornelius - Director of Business Development, Eastern Region
813.690.0137 Mobile/Text
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Mr. Michael Quinn - Director of Business Development, Western Region
520.797.9000 Mobile/Text
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