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CARSTAR Announces New Sales Management and Continued Growth

Brad Snow will be responsible for markets in the West and Northwest. Snow has thirteen years of experience in sales, most recently with ten years of senior sales management service at Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and Audatex, a Solera Company, focusing on the auto body industry.

“Snow’s strengths in the areas of business management consulting, strategic selling, and business process analysis, coupled with his consistent history of entrepreneurial-driven success, gives CARSTAR a significantly qualified resource for our franchise development team”, said Paul Evans, Director of Franchise Sales.

Mike Brisco, who served as Regional Service Manager for CARSTAR’s Tampa, Florida area for the past eighteen months, moves immediately to his new role of Franchise Development Manager for the entire Southeast Region, including Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.

CARSTAR has continued growing, with four new locations in recent months, bringing the store total for the franchise organization to 380 locations across North America. A total of 26 new stores were added during 2006. System wide, same store sales are also reported as strong with the YTD comparative sales report showing a healthy 6.2 percent increase over the same period last year.

Paul Evans, CARSTAR Director of Franchise Sales said, “Our stores continue to report increased sales even in these times when the industry as a whole is trending downward. This is fueling an interest in CARSTAR by larger shops than we have seen in the past. We don’t have a magic bullet, but obviously the combination of initiatives that we offer our franchisees is working to reverse the industry downtrend. That reversal is a very attractive incentive to shop owners. Big shop owners simply realize they will see a greater benefit, because their multiplier is larger.”

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