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Articles
23 Jul 2007
Topics: Customer service, Automotive, Kitemark®, PAS 80
Help is at hand for hard-pressed consumers fed up with poor service from energy companies, banks, shops, call centres and garages.
14 Feb 2007
Topics: Kitemark®, Automotive, Brands
Recognized, trusted and true - 100 years on, the Kitemark® continues to reassure consumers. Jo Russell takes a look at some well-deserved results.
14 Feb 2007
Topics: Automotive, PAS 125, Kitemark®, Thatcham
The complexities involved in crash repair and changing manufacturing practices are putting even more pressure on vehicle body repair companies to raise their game. The new Thatcham BSI Kitemark® scheme aims to help. John Coutts reports.
14 Feb 2007
Topics: Automotive, PAS 125, Kitemark®, Thatcham
Automotive authority Quentin Willson on the need for higher standards in the UK's vehicle body shop repair industry.
In Brief
A little bit extra for Kitemark® bodyshops and garages
30 Nov 2009
Topics: Automotive, Thatcham, Kitemark®
It's all well and good for an automotive bodyshop to earn the Thatcham BSI Kitemark® for Vehicle Body Repair, but it won't have as much impact if potential clients don't know about it. As a consequence, BSI decided to offer an Extras marketing toolkit to bodyshops and garages that have earned the Kitemark.
30 Jan 2009
Topics: Automotive, PAS 125, Kitemark®, Thatcham
More than 200 bodyshops in the UK have now achieved the Thatcham BSI Kitemark after Mill Lane Accident Repair Group in Aldershot and D Walton Ltd in Manchester both achieved certification.
Castrol and Kitemark:
spreading the word
21 Oct 2008
Topics: Automotive, PAS 80, Kitemark®
Castrol and BSI Product Services have teamed up for a joint marketing campaign to spread the word about the Kitemark scheme for Garage Services, which ensures that the standards of PAS 80 and the Kitemark are met and maintained.
Driving change in the bodyshop industry
25 Jul 2008
Topics: Automotive, PAS 125, Kitemark®, Thatcham
High Wycombe-based Motofix has become the 100th bodyshop to earn certification to the Thatcham BSI Kitemark, having demonstrated that it conforms to Kitemark standards. These include skills, repair methods, equipment and materials. The bodyshop was assessed by BSI inspectors and met stringent benchmarks in order to achieve Kitemark status.
29 May 2008
Topics: Automotive, PAS 80, Kitemark®
According to a survey by BSI Product Services carried out at the recent Aftermarket Show, 71 per cent of visitors think that all garages should have a Kitemark® , while over half said they would definitely take their car to a Kitemark® garage, given a choice.
28 Jan 2008
Topics: Automotive, PAS 80, Kitemark®
In January, BSI presented its Kitemark® for Garage Services and Thatcham BSI Kitemark® for Body Repair at The Aftermarket Show, which runs alongside Autosport International at the Birmingham NEC. This annual event caters to motorsport and automotive industry professionals, non-trade people actively involved in the sport and motorsport fans. The event attracts approximately 70,000 consumer visitors each year and represented a unique opportunity to get its automotive message across.
23 Jul 2007
Topics: Automotive, Kitemark®, PAS 125, Thatcham
Fleet managers picking repair firms risk dangerous repair quality, according to RAC Services
Thatcham BSI Kitemark®:
Update
24 Apr 2007
Topics: Automotive, Kitemark®, PAS 125, Thatcham
The new Thatcham BSI Kitemark® for the vehicle repair industry has been accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
14 Feb 2007
Topics: Automotive, PAS 80, Kitemark®
The BSI Kitemark® scheme for servicing and repair of vehicles (based on PAS 80) has become the first to be accredited by the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS).
Driving quality in crash repair
02 Oct 2006
Topics: Automotive, PAS 125, Kitemark®, Thatcham
BSI is working with specialist research firm Thatcham as well as other stakeholders to raise standards of vehicle body repair through the development of a universal specification and certification scheme.
Question: Do companies need to verify their carbon footprint?
Unless a business is regulated by some form of greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting and/or cap-and-trade regulation (as is the case for some 12,000 installations in Europe), rarely is there the need to either calculate or verify the accuracy of a carbon footprint.
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