December 2020

30 AFTERMARKET DECEMBER/JANUARY 2021 TOP TECHNICIAN AND TOP GARAGE www.toptechnicianonline.co.uk CLICK ON SUCCESS Top Garage 2021 can help your business stand out from the rest. Have you entered yet? Sponsored by: A s a reader of Aftermarket, you will have recently received an email inviting you to take part in Top Garage 2021. Did you open it? Did you enter? There are many good reasons to take part. The paramount one is how it will help your business, in terms of being exposed to new ideas from some of the best minds in the industry, and if you win, the exposure you will get in the industry. Scale In 2019, responding to feedback from competitors in the previous year’s Top Garage, the competition was altered to enable businesses of varying sizes to compete against other garages operating at the same scale. This year, the breakdown is as follows: Businesses with 1-3 staff Businesses with 4-6 staff Businesses with 7-9 staff Businesses with 10-plus staff This means big garages are competing against equally large operations, and smaller garages are competing against other similar workshops. Don’t worry about that too much right now though. For now, just enter. Once you take the initial quiz, you will go through a series of online rounds that will progress towards the live final on Saturday 9 October 2021. As discussed in the last two issues of Aftermarket, because of COVID-19, Top Garage 2021 has merged with Top Garage 2020. If you entered in 2020 and made it to the end, then you have are already qualified for 2021. However, if you did not enter, or you did not make it to the last stages, then you can enter for 2021. It all concludes in a spectacular fashion at the Top Technician and Top Garage Awards Evening on Saturday 9 October 2021, which is being held at the Jurys Inn Milton Keynes. Entering To enter, if you did not click on the link in the email straight away, just go to www.aftermarketonline.net and click on the take the quiz button. Then follow the instructions, using use the Top Garage 2021 voucher code: tg#21#rd1 . Good luck! Further information Make sure you keep an eye on Aftermarket magazine, www.aftermarketonline.net and as Aftermarket’s regular newsletter for updates on the competition. Top Technician and Top Garage are sponsored by Snap-on, Varta, TechMan and LKQ Euro Car Parts, and come to you in association with ABC Awards, ADS, the Garage Equipment Association (GEA), the Independent Automotive Aftermarket Federation (IAAF) and the Independent Garage Association (IGA). www.aftermarketonline.net Top Technician’s semi-finalists are already in place, and the semi-final and final will be held in September and October 2021 respectively. Further details will be announced nearer the time.

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