ICA From August to October, the WaterSavers® Tour stopped in three markets across the Southeast United States to tell car owners and their families why they should Go Pro for H2O. The tour, part of a public education campaign by the International Carwash Association® (ICA), spread the word that professional car washes use less water than driveway washing and keep harmful chemicals out of the water supply too. Learn More...

 

ICA The first issue of CAR WASH magazine, the official publication of the International Carwash Association®, is now available in a digital edition. The magazine is designed to be the preferred source of information for the car wash business leader. Learn More...

 

PRWeb Over the five years to 2016, the Car Wash and Auto Detailing industry will begin to clean up after slumped revenue during the recession. Over the period, revenue is forecast to rise at an average annual rate of 2.5 percent to reach $6.8 billion by 2016, according to IBISWorld, the nation’s largest publisher of industry research. Learn More...

 

eWeek.com Small businesses created 30,000 new jobs in October, but employees are working fewer hours and making less money. While small business employment grew by 0.14 percent in October, equating to an annual growth rate of 1.7 percent, hours worked and compensation decreased by 0.2 percent and 0.06 percent, respectively. Learn More...

 

Financial Times (blog) Lima may be the world’s second driest capital city after Cairo, but its residents don’t act like they live in a desert. On average, Limeños use 250 litres of water a day – double that of European Union residents and 2.5 times as much as their peers in dusty Cairo. This makes the opening of the city’s first waterless car wash significant, if only as a harbinger of change in the prevailing attitude. Learn More...

 

The New York Times On a recent sunny afternoon, unaware drivers who pulled into the car wash on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers might have thought they had seen an apparition when they saw a 6-foot-9 man in a black T-shirt and jeans vacuuming and wiping down cars. Learn More...

 

Small Business Trends If you were marooned on a desert island, with only marketing books to read, which would you want with you? Inside these top 10 choices you will come to understand how prospects and customers think, and what influences them. You will be able to find and identify a profitable niche, create a product mix, price it and ultimately promote it profitably. Learn More...