MONTH 2017 AFTERMARKET 3 www.aftermarketonline.net OCTOBER 2023 AFTERMARKET 5 Top Technician/Top Garage 2023 finalists The finalists for Top Technician and Top Garage 2023 have been named. Top Technicians’ finalists, who will be returning to the Delphi Academy on Saturday 14 October for the final, are as follows: David Weston, Kia UK, Surrey George Bettley, Crewe SEAT, Cheshire Jack Richards, Millers Garage, Berkshire Simon Parkinson,Motolec, Lancashire Mark Sturgess, Keen and Betts, West Sussex This group will face a range of 50 minute technical and diagnostic challenges set by the judges. At the same time, businesses in a range of size-based classes will also be facing the Top Garage judges at the Delphi Academy. With them will be individual employees taking part in the Top Service Advisor Award, as well as businesses competing for the brand-new Workplace Health and Wellbeing award, which is being run in association with Ben. The finalists are as follows: Businesses with 1 to 3 employees: A&J Fleetcare Alga Garage Bectec Vehicle Repairs CM Automotive Bristol Drive Green Vehicle Services Hutchings Vehicle Services John Hall Auto Electrician MMS Technik The Garage Warmington WJH Auto Businesses with 4 to 6 employees A1 Autocentre AJ Automedics CT Cars Links Automotive Maitland Motors Shires Garage Auto Services Businesses with 7 to 9 employees Auto Works Service Centre Beverley Motor Works Billingborough Cars and Commercials Bryan Swales Auto Repairs CSN Autos Cleevely Motors E&M MOT & Service Ewan Lawson Motors P Breading Motor Services Ramsey Hill Garage Robert Cockings Motor Repairs Businesses with 10+ employees AAK Autos Service Anderson Clark Motor Repairs D&D Autos (Ashford) Express Motor Workshop Fitch Autos Jackson & Phillips Automotive Services Oldfields Garage Services QCD Autocentres Milton Keynes Ruellans Garage Uckfield Motor Services Multi-site businesses CCM HiQ Tyres and Autocare Ipswich Shaikly Motor Company Rowes Honda Top Service Advisor Adrian Bird: Alga Garage Jessica Cobbold: Billingborough Cars & Commercials Terry Felstead: CSN Autos Sharon McCormick: CCM (Ewhurst) Amanda DiFrancescomarino: CCM (Gatwick) Connor Blanning: CM Automotive Bristol Sam Brown: HiQ Tyres and Autocare Ipswich Daniel Anthony Noel-Johnson: Rowes Honda Plymstock Michael Meaker: Shires Garage Auto Services Miriam English: Torque Monkey James Wheatley: Uckfield Motor Services Wesley Heimann: WJH Auto Ltd Workplace health and wellbeing; In association with Ben AAK Autos Service Alga Garage Billingborough Cars and Commercials CSN Autos CM Automotive Bristol Maitland Motors MMS Technik Ruellans Garage The winner and runner-up in Top Technician, as well as the winners in Top Garage will be named later that day at the Top Technician and Top Garage Awards Evening being held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Coventry. Top Technician and Top Garage 2023 come to you in association with the Garage Equipment Association (GEA), the Independent Automotive Aftermarket Federation (IAAF) and the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). Full Event Partners: Snap-on, TOPDON, TechMan, Delphi Technologies, BookMyGarage, ALLDATA Europe, TPS and MOTUL. For a full report on the Top Technician semi-final go to pages 22-23. Full Event Partners: www.aftermarketonline.net
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