Collision Shops Can Now Benefit From ALLDATA Market
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ELK GROVE, Calif., Oct. 27, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ALLDATA LLC, the leading
provider of manufacturers' vehicle repair information and solutions for the
professional automotive service and collision repair industries, has announced
that its ALLDATA(R) Market(SM)is now available to collision repair shops.
ALLDATA Market(SM) can provide collision repair shops an Internet presence and
help improve their marketing efforts.
"ALLDATA Market gives a shop visibility they didn't have before," said Dan
Espersen, ALLDATA's Senior Collision Program Manager. "With an online presence
and the listing in our 'Find-A-Shop' directory, customers can find a collision
shop easily when they need one, perhaps even while on the side of the road."
ALLDATA Market offers advanced features that help shops successfully compete in
today's economic climate:
-- Fully hosted shop website with content provided by ALLDATA
-- Personalized customer pages with service histories
-- Automated newsletters on the customer's behalf
-- Find-A-Shop -- national directory listing making it easy for customers
to find a local shop
-- Online appointment scheduling (integrated with ALLDATA Manage)
"Mechanical shops have benefited from ALLDATA Market for years," said Espersen.
"Now collision repair shops can have a website and level the playing field with
a tool that makes it easy to be found by a customer and keep customers coming
back by staying top of mind."
About ALLDATA
ALLDATA, founded in 1986, with more than 80,000 automotive repair and collision
shop subscribers, is the leading provider of manufacturers' service and repair
information, shop management software and customer relations tools for the
automotive repair and collision industries. Professional automotive repair shops
across North America depend on ALLDATA for their automotive repair information
needs and to purchase parts from more than 2,200 AutoZone Commercial program
locations.
ALLDATA(R) Collision(SM) S3500 is the single source of OEM collision repair
information delivering unedited and regularly updated information for structural
repairs, mechanical and diagnostic information. ALLDATA(R) Market(SM) is a
web-based shop marketing tool that enables a Web presence and brings in new and
repeat business. For more information, visit www.alldata.com or call
800.697.2533.
About AutoZone:
As of August 27, 2011, AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) sells auto and light truck parts,
chemicals and accessories through 4,534 AutoZone stores in 48 U.S. states plus
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and 279 stores in Mexico. AutoZone is
the leading retailer and a leading distributor of automotive replacement parts
and accessories in the United States. Each store carries an extensive product
line for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans and light trucks, including new and
remanufactured automotive hard parts, maintenance items, accessories, and
non-automotive products. Many stores also have a commercial sales program that
provides commercial credit and prompt delivery of parts and other products to
local, regional and national repair garages, dealers, service stations, and
public sector accounts. AutoZone also sells the ALLDATA brand diagnostic and
repair software through www.alldata.com. Additionally, we sell automotive hard
parts, maintenance items, accessories, non-automotive products and subscriptions
to the ALLDATAdiy product through www.autozone.com, and our commercial customers
can make purchases through www.autozonepro.com. AutoZone does not derive
revenue from automotive repair or installation.
CONTACT: ALLDATA
Annette Mullin at 888-892-2332
Fax: 916-684-6933
press.relations@alldata.com
AutoZone Contact Information
Media: Ray Pohlman at 866-966-3017
ray.pohlman@autozone.com
Financial: Brian Campbell at 901-495-7005
brian.campbell@autozone.com
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