PAP137: Wrapping up 2023 with Sam Street and our Hall of Fame Inductees

This week’s key takeaway: Wrapping up 2023 with Sam Street and our Hall of Famers

 

Episode intro: It's that time of the year again… it’s time for Paint & Panel’s roundup of 2023. It’s been an eventful year of high demand, more cars on the road and not enough parts to go around.

 

We welcome back two industry-friends of the show who are both Paint & Panel Awards Hall of Famers. Robin Taylor (Performance Services Development Consultant at Axalta) and Steve O’Brien (MD at iBodyshop) join Ben and editor Sam for a roundtable discussion about the good and the bad of 2023 and what we can expect for 2024.

 

We’d like to say a big thank you to all of our listeners in 2023 - we hope you had a good year. See you all on the other side!

 

In this week’s episode you will learn: How the industry dealt with high demand with a skills shortage Is COVID still an issue for the industry? The scale of the part-supply problem How the industry has made itself more efficient lately Why there are more cars on the road at the moment How smash repairers are reinvesting in their futures The most popular podcast topics of 2023 What the industry is doing to attract new talent Predictions for 2024 How independents can stand out in 2024 Show links: ** Find Robin on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-taylor-6b915612?originalSubdomain=au ** Find Steve on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-o-brien-ibodyshop/?originalSubdomain=au ** Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: [email protected] ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter ** Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.