(AutoChannel) -- DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) announces it is partnering with The Body Shop, the industry's leading experts on collision repair. The agreement between the parties covers the sharing of The Body Shop's proven Star-Link Collision Repair System, a Kaizen centered business model that was developed by John Sweigart and Brad Sullivan over the past 12 years. The model is currently practiced in all of The Body Shop's Pittsburgh and New Jersey locations, as well as in several other independent repair shops in the United States and Canada. DPC is partnering with The Body Shop to offer a refined version of the model to DPC body shops.
The Body Shop operates a customer focused group of collision
repair centers with plans to continue rapid expansion over the coming
years. Sweigart and Sullivan created the Star-Link Collision Repair
Network, made up exclusively of repairers who are truly committed to
genuine improvement through Kaizen. This group exists to promote to the
customer a substantially better offering, and to work together through
shared learning for the sake of a better collision repair industry.