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ICA Goes Abroad
April 1, 2014
11 minute Read
BACKGROUND
International Carwash Association has been periodically engaged in non-North American markets since at least the 1960s. At one...
Read MoreWin, Win
April 1, 2014
3 minute Read
In February of this year, ICA announced a new partnership with Western Carwash Association (WCA) whereby WCA would no longer sponsor its...
Read MoreThe Car Wash Show™ 2014
April 1, 2014
3 minute Read
The world’s largest car wash convention and trade show drew more than 5,600 industry professionals to Chicago March 31 - April 1 for three...
Read MoreWaterSavers Program Serves as Vehicle to Reach Consumers
April 1, 2014
4 minute Read
Prime Shine Car Wash was built around the principle of saving — money, time and water.
Since opening its first facility in 1991 in...
Read MoreBlast from the Past - Spring 2014
January 2, 2014
6 minute Read
We occasionally provide excerpts from The Great American Car Wash Story. Former ICA Executive Director Gus Trantham and veteran commercial...
Read MoreDoes A Company Really Need to Innovate?
January 1, 2014
3 minute Read
Does a company really need to innovate? This is one of the questions I am asked on a fairly regular basis. There are many folks who firmly...
Read MoreGetting to the Point of Biometrics
January 1, 2014
6 minute Read
While most people pay for coffee by pulling out the wallet, swiping a card and entering a few numbers, that’s not how it’s done in Rapid...
Read MoreThe Innovator’s DNA
January 1, 2014
7 minute Read
Is an innovator born or made? That question prompted authors Hal Gregersen, Clayton Christensen and Jeff Dyer to take on an eight-year...
Read MoreEmerging Russian Car Wash Industry Faces Challenges
January 1, 2014
7 minute Read
The Russian car wash industry has potential investors looking at the market as a possible next investment in major growth in the car wash...
Read MoreYou Don’t Have to Fail
January 1, 2014
6 minute Read
Innovation experts tell us that failure is part of the innovation process. But companies with fewer innovation failures succeed more often...
Read MoreData Driven
January 1, 2014
5 minute Read
As featured in last Spring’s cover story, “Smarten Up,” car wash operators have joined the broader business-intelligence (BI) movement,...
Read MoreTake It From Tech: Entrepreneurial Lessons Courtesy of Google
January 1, 2014
6 minute Read
Tech giant Google already has been credited with changing the way we think about, search for and process information. So why shouldn’t it...
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