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The National Catalog Managers Association (NCMA) is now accepting entries to be considered for the President’s Catalog Excellence Awards. Catalogs will be evaluated in three categories: printed catalogs, web catalogs and, new in 2012, mobile catalog applications. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Jan. 13, and the awards will be presented at the annual Knowledge [...]

The Automotive Distribution Network has announced the speakers for its sold-out national convention, which will be held Feb. 26-29 at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort. The lineup includes returning speakers Jim Mathis, author and president of The Mathis Group, and Bob Cooper, the former owner of several successful service dealerships, who will both be presenting [...]

Online registration and registration through the MACS office for the MACS Convention & Trade Show will continue until Friday, Jan. 13. After that date, registration for convention events will need to occur onsite at the MACS convention registration desk at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Prices will be higher onsite. [...]

The Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance has promoted Dale Hopkins from vice president of information technology (a position he has held since 2007) to vice president and chief information officer. “For the past four years Dale has been building a crew and architecting the Alliance Technology Suite,” said John Washbish, president and CEO. “He has built [...]

Smyrna, TN-based Beck/Arnley has promoted Matt Lundh to director of program groups and strategic markets. In addition to his new position, Lundh continues to serve as Beck/Arnley’s north and Midwest regional manager. From 1999-’10, he worked for General Parts International/Carquest in various roles, including district manager for the central region, regional director of store operations [...]

As first announced in 2010, Joseph Holsten, the chairman and co-CEO of LKQ Corp., has resigned effective Jan. 1, 2012 from his officer position. Holsten remains with Chicago-based LKQ as chairman of the board and as a consultant regarding operational and strategic matters. Robert Wagman, the company’s president and co-CEO, has become LKQ’s president and [...]

U.S. Auto Parts Network (Carson, CA) has hired David Robson as its CFO, replacing Ted Sanders who is stepping down but will remain as an internal consultant to the company to assist with the transition. Sanders has been with U.S. Auto Parts since 2009. Robson has more than 20 years of finance, accounting and operational [...]

Greg Merriweather has been appointed to the newly created position of senior product manager for Corteco (Milan, OH), the aftermarket business of Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies. As such, Merriweather is responsible for Corteco’s TransTec automatic transmission and power steering product lines, as well as products supplied to OE service customers. His purview will include the responsibilities [...]

National Performance Warehouse (NPW) opened a new “fast throughput” warehouse last month north of its Miami headquarters in Broward County. It is to be joined later this month by another such facility south of Miami in south Dade County. This would give NPW a total of four locations servicing the state of Florida: the three [...]

St. George, UT-based CargoGlide, a manufacturer of truck bed slides, is now the exclusive U.S. sales arm for Truckboss modular aluminum sled and ATV truck decks by Marathon Decks. … Babcox Media (Akron, OH) has announced that it acquired Fort Myers, FL-based Automotive Video Inc. (AVI), a provider of DVDs, manuals and online educational resources [...]