Car Wash News
 
 
Lustra/Cleaning Systems, Inc
 
Upcoming Events
 
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Join us Thursday for #CARWASHMagazineLive. This Week: We visit 7 Flags Car Wash with Jack and Jason Anthony, a father-son team from a multi-generation car wash family. The 55-year-old site we'll feature on the show has self-serve, quick lube, and flex wash capabilities. We'll learn how they've re-invented the business over the years, and how their flexible model weathers even the wildest change.
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A.V.W. Equipment Co., Inc.
 
ICA news
 
  
Unprecedented. Unforeseen. Challenging. The adjectives used to describe the COVID-19 crisis all start to run together after awhile. But as a business owner or car wash professional, it doesn’t tell you much about how COVID-19 is really affecting our industry.
 
That’s where International Carwash Association’s Industry Pulse Surveys™ come in. Since the beginning of April, we’ve polled operators and suppliers monthly about the conditions they’re facing in their businesses—and what they’re predicting for the future.
 
Zep Vehicle Care, Inc.
 
Industry News
 
  
Data obtained by Learnbonds.com reveals that Europe’s passenger car sales dropped by about 74% year-to-date between January and April 2020. The drop was recorded in the 27 European member states alongside the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
Source: NACS
Dr. Oliver Schlake, professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, shares how organizations should craft resilient strategies by changing their future awareness threshold. Ideas include repositioning operations and changing awareness thresholds.
 
Hydra-Flex Inc.
 
 
Antonio Hernandez was just doing his job at Evans Street Car Wash in Greenville, N.C., when he came across some very expensive trash, a $1,200 IRS stimulus check.  The man whom it belonged to, Charles Thompson, had no idea it was there – or how it got there. Hernandez and his daughter Michelle Alvarado were able to get the check back to Thompson, a check that couldn't have come at a better time.
Roadhouse Car Wash in Moline, Iowa, supported by local business sponsors, gave children a framed canvas and supplies to paint “whatever makes them happy.” The art will be hung inside the wash bay. One-third of the proceeds from the bay will go to that charity and all of the proceeds from the vacuum will go to that same charity.
 
Ascentium Capital , LLC
Elektrim Motors
 
 
Source: Petrol Plaza
The new Autobell Car Wash site in Johns Island, S.C., will hold its grand opening unlike any other store in the company's 51-year history – during a global pandemic – and will be using hospital-grade, EPA-registered vehicle interior disinfectant to help flatten the coronavirus curve. Autobell Car Wash is America's fifth-largest car wash company with 87 locations.
A themed car wash called Firehose will open in Idaho Falls, Idaho, this summer. It’s going to be themed like a firehouse, so will have big red doors. The site will also feature a full-size firetruck and the owenrs will have a ‘name-the-fire-truck’ competition prior to opening the wash.
Washed Up Car Wash faced a huge challenge when the governor issued stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, causing them to close their doors only 14 days after opening. Fortunately, Washed Up was able to re-open on April 18, 2020, following strict sanitation and social distancing protocols.
 
Coleman Hanna Carwash Systems LLC
Chemquest/Hobo Inc.
 
Leadership
 
  
How can you make the remote onboarding experience a productive one when hiring a new leader? What can you do to support the new hires so that they'll hit the ground running?
COVID-19 is forcing business leaders to adapt operating models faster than ever before to ensure existential survival. But with many of these operating models including increased virtual and online transactions, cybersecurity operations are feeling immense pressure. Even as organizations are making extraordinary efforts to protect their workers and serve their customers during the pandemic, exposure to cyberthreats is increasing significantly.
 
Clean World Distribution
OPW Vehicle Wash Solutions (PDQ & Belanger)
 
Marketing
 
  
You must find ways to tailor each channel's messaging that’s appropriate for your company, your market and your customers as your operations begin to reopen. You can't appeal to all audiences with the same message.
Source: Forbes
If you were to compare essential marketing tools to the six gems in the all-powerful Infinity Gauntlet (think, The Avenger's: Infinity War), what would you have in your arsenal? Which six products are essential pieces of a successful, all-powerful marketing gauntlet?
 
A & M Vending Machine Sales
Transchem Inc.