“I look at Safelite like the New York Yankees,” says Mark Liston, president of Glass Doctor, describing Safelite’s recent purchase of Guardian’s retail assets. “Who they can buy, they will. Simple as ...
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SafeliteGroup, the nation’s leading vehicle glass company and owner of Safelite AutoGlass, has reached an agreement to acquire substantially all of the vehicle glass repair and replacement assets of Guardian Auto Glass, LLC, a joint ...
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Ardagh claimed three of the top prizes at the annual UK Packaging Awards presented at a glittering ceremony in London. Josh Brooks ( Event Organiser) Robert Fell (R&D Manager, Aerosol & Speciality Containers, Ardagh, Crosmières), ...
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Safelite Group of Columbus is buying part of a Michigan company, adding to Safelite’s status as the largest player in the vehicle-glass business. The Northwest Side company said yesterday that it has reached an agreement to buy the ...
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It is estimated that a staggering 11.6 million average size bottles* were made using over 775 tonnes of recycled automotive waste glass from Auto Windscreens between January and June this year. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, September 15, 2013 ...
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An auto glass company says it will add up to 350 jobs over the next three years and expand its headquarters in central Ohio. Columbus-based Safelite Group says the additional workers and expansion are contingent on approval of city and ...
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An auto-glazing apprentice has shown he has what it takes to succeed in one of the UK’s fastest moving sectors of industry, worth an estimated £5billion annually, by winning a major award for his outstanding achievement. ...
PIQUED by what he called the Inspector-General of Police’s (IGP) insistence on the ban against the use of tinted glass vehicles, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Malachy Ugwummadu, has written to IGP, Mohammed Abubakar against his ...
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Safelite AutoGlass® has implemented a quality inspection program named the Goods-In Survey (GIS) for two of its distribution centers. "In addition to receiving windshields manufactured by sister company Safelite® Glass Corp., ...
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National Windscreens has been named the preferred vehicle glass replacement and repair supplier in a new contract with ScottishPower, one of the UK's leading energy suppliers. Several well-known competitors in windscreen repair and ...
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Safelite Group, the nation’s leading vehicle glass company, has reached an agreement to acquire substantially all of the vehicle glass related assets of Barre, Vermont-based Windshield World. The deal was finalized December 31, 2012. ...
As global auto glass conglomerates continue to expand abroad, North American auto glass shops can gauge industry trends by looking on a worldwide scale. Recent news coming out of the UK may be a sign of things to come. An international ...
Tags: auto glass, Aviva, glass, insurer, car insurance
Safelite Group Inc. said Friday it has purchased North Andover-based Giant Glass Co. Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The sale, rumored for more than a week, was completed Monday, ending 34 years of local ownership by Dennis Drinkwater and ...
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To quote Hank Williams Jr., "The interest is up and the stock market's down." What are auto glass repair and replacement (AGRR) shops facing as a variety of fiscal uncertainties head their way in 2013? Mixed reporting nearing the approach ...
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Brussels, Belgium-based D'Ieteren, owner of the Belron® Group and Belron's U.S. subsidiary, Safelite Group, has revised its "Guidance for 2012 and 2013," reporting it anticipates declines in the coming year. In addition to owning Belron ...
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