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ICA news
At The Car Wash Show 2019 at Music City Center, you’ll be steps away from dining, music, history and unforgettable experiences. Nashville offers endless opportunities to relax and connect with suppliers, industry peers and colleagues. Live music abounds in Nashville, but there’s even more to enjoy – here’s just a sample.
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Industry News
Source: EPA Funding could leverage $6 billion in public and private investment for construction-ready projects to protect drinking water from lead and emerging contaminants, upgrade aging infrastructure, promote water recycling and reuse.
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Source: NACS
Acceptance of autonomous cars and EVs is an issue to tackle. Under new guidelines, companies in Pittsburgh that are testing self-driving vehicles have three days to report crashes resulting in any damage.
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Source: Journal News
Fairfield, Ohio, will be the site of a new Zips Car Wash, which already has 154 locations in 15 states according to its website.
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Source: PRWeb
Mister Car Wash, which cleans over 26 million cars annually, earned an excellent score from 7,000 team members.
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The month of March brought with it a lion’s share of business at Tommy’s Express Car Wash locations and other Totally Tommy-style facilities across the United States. Records were broken at a number of both corporate and franchise locations including:
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Leadership
Source: CSP Daily News
NACS study reveals 37% fill up their tanks between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and they are less concerned about gas prices when deciding which pit stop they use.
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Source: SmartBrief
Various approaches are used by leaders to deliver feedback to teams. But, many of these styles don’t foster the intended results, much to the frustration of those delivering the feedback.
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Marketing
Source: Search Engine Journal
Marketing on Facebook isn’t a free-for-all. It’s not a guaranteed win, either. But, before you can ever make a blip on the Facebook algorithm, you need to follow some basic rules.
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Source: CMS Wire
A recent CMO survey shows that marketing expenditure across a variety of industries saw a 7.1 percent increase between 2017 to 2018, and with more martech being developed, it’s likely that trend will continue in 2019 and beyond. So how should brands allocate their marketing budget?
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Supplier News
Innovative Control Systems, the provider of the car wash industry’s leading technology solutions, such as the WashConnect POS and management system and the Auto Sentry line of payment terminals, is consolidating and relocating its existing Production facilities to a new state-of-the art facility in Bethlehem, Penn.
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