Revive! Articles

Kelly Blackmore-Lee has joined the Revive! head office support team as head of franchise operations South. Previously head of compliance at the British Franchise Association (bfa), Kelly has considerable experience working within the franchise industry. Before moving to the bfa she held senior roles at both the Dream Doors and Shakeaway franchises. Revive! has re-structured […]

It is one of four finalists hoping to win the SME Business of the Year category in the Lincolnshire Media Business Awards 2017. The winner will be announced at an awards dinner later this month. Owner of Revive! West Lincs Russell Hudson and his team are on track to hit £1m turnover by the end […]

The UK’s largest network of accredited smart repairers, Revive! has welcomed three new franchisees as part of the company’s strategic growth plan to achieve a turnover of £20m by 2020. As the volume of its work continues to increase, Revive! has been looking for top quality people to further boost the extensive coverage that the […]

Revive Basingstoke Drives Classic Skoda in Charity Rally The team at Revive! Basingstoke has just come back from world’s largest charity car rally. Owners of the Knight Park Road based specialist mobile vehicle paint repair company Michal Lepiarz and his partner Irmina Kowalska together with Irmina’s brother Kamil and friend Krzysiek raised over 400 euros […]

Franchisee of the Year winners Revive East Anglia, hit the press today when the Daily Mail featured them in their franchising section. The article read: A  lone ‘man and a van’ franchise can grow into a much bigger business. Car enthusiast Nathan Holmes bought a Revive! Franchise providing mobile vehicle repairs in Cambridge in 2007. […]

Each year Revive! franchisees from all over the UK meet up for an annual conference to review the network performance over the previous 12 months and hear the company’s business growth plans for the future. The 2017 conference was held at the home of English football, St George’s Park in Burton. you can see more […]

Revive! sponsored reigning BTCC Independents Champion Andrew Jordan has played his part in helping Pirtek UK raise £10,000 for Prostate Cancer UK. Andrew, who has been supported by Revive! UK for over five years, was one of seven volunteers who braved the cold to strip off for the annual Pirtek calendar as the leading Fluid […]

It’s tempting to neglect your car bodywork during the cold winter months and give it a Dry January– as fast as you clean it more dirt and grime splashes up onto the paintwork from wet roads – but in fact, now’s the best time of year to give your vehicle a good once over and […]

The stunning livery that will adorn the BMW 125i M Sport of Andrew Jordan for the 2017 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season has been released. The unveiling of the West Surrey Racing-run BMW was one of the main draws on the opening day of the annual Autosport International Show at the NEC in […]

Revive! and Pirtek Racing’s Andrew Jordan spent three days on the test track this week getting the feel of the  West Surrey Racing-run BMW 125i M Sport car he will use for the 2017 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship. Jordan (27)  who has been sponsored by Revive! for the past five years was running […]

We are delighted to announce that Revive! will be sponsoring BTCC racing driver Andrew Jordan once again for the 2017 season. This year he was named Independent Driver for the third time and he’s set his sights firmly on regaining the title he won in 2013 by moving to the award-winning West Surrey Racing team […]

Whether or not you plan to sell your car privately or part exchange with a dealer, the number one priority is to make it look as good as possible and maximise the price you achieve. Prepare your car for sale.   Revive! bodywork and alloy wheel repair specialists offers these top tips:   Give your […]

What are the Internal costs of Dealer Smart Repairs – wooden dollars? With an increase in preparation costs, dealers reviewed these costs and looked at how they could do the work themselves. Internal preparation adds to the cost of internal labour but sometimes the costs of work are increased to cover the overheads – whereas an […]

How Smart Repairs started as a low cost option and is now developing costs with legs! Continuing our theme of dealer smart repairs we turn to look at the costs involved. Initially the service was used as an outsourced service that dealt solely with vehicle preparation and more specifically used car prep – ensuring cars […]

The latest AA – Populus poll reveals that poor bodywork is the number one reason why buyers walk away from buying a used car.  Across all regions of the UK over 38% of AA members questioned put appearance top of their buying criteria. Commenting on this finding Mark Llewellyn, Managing Director of the UK’s largest […]

Smart Repair services have consistently found a way into Used Car Prep ensuring cars are prepped prior to sale allowing them to either be sold faster or for more money, by presenting a clean car with no nicks, scuffs scrapes or dents. The marketplace has evolved quite significantly over the past 20 years as mobile […]

Smart Repairs has morphed out of all shape since the airbrushes of the mid 1990s have been replaced by specially designed and manufactured equipment for the needs of professional minor repairers. With the recent advent of minor repair bays implanted onto dealer sites the market has seen a complete change of direction and the small […]

PCP end of life causing customer issues? The recent SMTT report revealed a record number of new vehicle registrations during March 2016, as car sales have now surpassed the pre-recession figures. At the same time the figures show one of the significant changes since the recession – over 80% of vehicles were purchased on finance. […]

Mobile paint repairs for used car preparation began in the UK in 1994 when customised vans would start working on dealer forecourts. From those early days using airbrushes and touching in stone chips the sector has evolved enormously where the products and processes allow professional, long lasting repairs. Coupled with a high quality service Smart […]

The Revive! National Account Programme – a ten year programme! The Revive! National Account programme was born in 2006 giving the network an instant £200,000 boost in sales during its first year of operation. Since then, the programme has come a long way and Revive! have established some very long standing partners in the process. […]

Revive! Sets Standards for People Development Leading vehicle paint repair specialist Revive! has been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) accreditation – an international standard for people management. The business which has its headquarters in Rugby spent the past 18 months putting systems and procedures in place to meet the rigorous IIP criteria which focuses […]

We are sure you will all be delighted to hear that the UK weather forecast for the next five days is…..rain. Don’t worry too much though, weather forecasters’ minds change like the weather. A band of heavy rain and strong wind is slowly moving across Wales, central and northern England, making driving conditions much trickier. So […]

Get winter ready with Revive! – the UK experts in minor car body repairs. We repair wherever you are! Winter is coming Winter is coming (for all of you Game of Thrones fans out there) but don’t worry, we don’t mean white walkers. It is time to dig out the hat, scarf and gloves this […]

Get you and your car Winter Ready with Revive!. We start to hear it from the weather forecasters about the same time every year: “There’s a storm coming”. This year is no different with the alarm bells now ringing to warn us all of the worst storm for 144 years and the coldest winter on […]