It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that later this year we will hold the inaugural Auto Trade Aftersales Expo. Our new Auto Trade Expo will be the first of its kind ever held in Ireland.

It will prove a Mecca for mechanics; technicians; and apprentices from independent garages and main dealerships. It will also be a must attend event for workshop and / or aftersales managers, parts managers, and owners and managers of garages, transport workshops, bodyshops, tyre centres, motor factors, and everyone involved in the auto aftermarket. Trade stands will be interactive with real demonstrations. Touch and feel the parts, tools and equipment and interact with those doing the demonstrations, to have your questions answered. All vehicle aftermarket sectors including passenger cars, light commercials, heavy commercials and buses will be catered for in the Auto Trade Expo.

After several years of research in to trade exhibitions, we decided on a model that will offer advertisers the contact they require with the buyers, technicians, mechanics and in return their customers, our readers will come away from an impressive event having learned a great deal in both theory and practice about the products, services, tools and equipment that are required each day in their workshops.

In addition to interactivity and demonstrations on the trade stands, we will also offer attendees a multi dimensional experience in areas of diagnostics, hands on demonstrations, taster training courses, business development and custom handling seminars, and much more.

We will have full details in the next issue of the Auto Trade Journal and on-line at all our portals including: AutoTrade,ie; Bodyshop.ie; FactorFocus.ie; TransportParts.ie; TyreTrade.ie and TechTalk.ie. Certainly this is one major event that exhibitors and everyone in the auto trade aftermarket should not miss.

Padraic Deane