Top Garage 2019 winners announced

Competition looks to find the best workshop businesses in the UK

Top Garage 2019 winners announced
2019 Top Garage Winner 11 over. L-R: Helen Fospero, Matthew Copp (co-owner, Cedar Garage), Kevin Pearce (co-owner, Cedar Garage), Mark Ost (General Manager at Snap-on).

Three garages from across the UK have been recognised as the best in the country in Top Garage 2019.

Top Garage is a national contest launched in 2018 by Aftermarket magazine to shine a light on the best garage businesses operating in the UK.

The competition looks at all aspects, including business planning, customer care, investment and methods.

Hundreds of businesses entered, with three being identified as winners.

Top Garage has been created to run alongside Top Technician, a competition for individual mechanics that was established in 2002 in order to find the UK’s most skilled automotive technicians.

Business with up to five staff; presented by Euro Car Parts

Declan McCormack Vehicle Repairs, Chippenham, Wiltshire

Business with 6-10 staff presented by TRICO

Cheltenham and Gloucester Autocentre, Staverton, Gloucestershire

Businesses with 11-plus staff; presented by Snap-on

Cedar Garage (2018 overall champions), Worthing, West Sussex

Each business received a prize from the company that sponsored their section.

Declan McCormack Vehicle Repairs received a Milwaukee tool from Euro Car Parts.

Cheltenham and Gloucester Autocentre’s prize from TRICO was a Flex stock pack of wiper blades.

Finally, 2018 overall winners Cedar Garage got their hands on a fully-loaded ZEUS diagnostic tool, courtesy of Snap-on.

Managers and owners from these businesses faced the panel of judges at the final, which took place at the RMI Academy of Automotive Skills in Southam, Warwickshire on Saturday 22 June.

To get to this point, each business had passed through a stringent process, including online tests and mystery shopping by the judges.

Contestants also had to produce a video about their business.

The winners were announced at the Top Technician and Top Garage Awards Dinner, held at the Jurys Inn Milton Keynes on Saturday 22 June.

The evening was hosted by TV presenter and journalist Helen Fospero.

She introduced the sponsors, who then presented the winner and runner up of Top Technician and winners of the various awards within Top Garage with their prizes.

The total value of the prizes presented to the winners of Top Garage and Top Technician, courtesy of the sponsors, amounted to more than £26,000.

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