In what many are calling a no-brainer, The Hail Team and St. Louis Dent Repair have begun collective strategizing in order to maintain and increase their presence in the national automotive hail repair market. While a complete merger has not happened yet, there are ongoing talks, and if the past performance of these two are an indicator of things to come, we better all just hold on. The two companies first began working together in the 2006 catastrophic hail storm that blanketed the city of St. Louis, Missouri on February 12th, 2006. When the Storm was over the obvious was realized. 58 PDR technicians in 31 different Auto body shops along with an extremely happy list of shop owners could mean only one thing. The formula for success in a high volume storm was in place. Now, that formula will be incorporated nationwide. St. Louis Dent Repair owner and founder, Ryan Hampton, will spearhead the marketing campaign and oversee new and existing auto body relationships. "We are very excited about the future we are creating today. With the larger dent repair companies focusing more and more of their time on insurance company relationships, we believe PDR will and should stay where it started, in the body shops. And that is where we will continue to focus our attention." Overall day to day operations and company functions, as well as technician management, will still be performed by The Hail Team's founder Kirk Stanton, affectionately known in the industry as simply, "The Captain". We look forward to monitoring this situation and the progress of this relationship as the 2010 Hail season approaches.
In what many are calling a no-brainer, The Hail Team and St. Louis Dent Repair have begun collective strategizing in order to maintain and increase their presence in the national automotive hail repair market. While a complete merger has not happened yet, there are ongoing talks, and if the past performance of these two are an indicator of things to come, we better all just hold on. The two companies first began working together in the 2006 catastrophic hail storm that blanketed the city of St. Louis, Missouri on February 12th, 2006. When the Storm was over the obvious was realized. 58 PDR technicians in 31 different Auto body shops along with an extremely happy list of shop owners could mean only one thing. The formula for success in a high volume storm was in place. Now, that formula will be incorporated nationwide. St. Louis Dent Repair owner and founder, Ryan Hampton, will spearhead the marketing campaign and oversee new and existing auto body relationships. "We are very excited about the future we are creating today. With the larger dent repair companies focusing more and more of their time on insurance company relationships, we believe PDR will and should stay where it started, in the body shops. And that is where we will continue to focus our attention." Overall day to day operations and company functions, as well as technician management, will still be performed by The Hail Team's founder Kirk Stanton, affectionately known in the industry as simply, "The Captain". We look forward to monitoring this situation and the progress of this relationship as the 2010 Hail season approaches.
