Multi Parts Supply Announces SPARK Initiative

Multi Parts Supply Announces SPARK Initiative

Company creates "Electric Opportunity" for auto care industry's next generation. Inaugural event will be held at AAPEX 2014.

JUPITER, Fla. – Multi Parts Supply (MPS) used the occasion of the 2014 Global Aftermarket Automotive Symposium (GAAS) to announce the new MPS SPARK Initiative. Developed by the MPS senior management team, the SPARK Initiative’s purpose is to ignite deeper interest in the auto care industry among the next generation of technical and executive professionals. The SPARK Initiative’s inaugural event will take place at the 2014 Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) Show, Nov. 4-6, at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas. For the SPARK Initiative 2014, MPS is selecting six GAAS scholarship winners, providing each an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2014 AAPEX Expo. SPARK selectees will be treated to an activity-packed, three-day industry immersion.
 
SPARK Initiative 2014 selectees will benefit from a dynamic one-of-a-kind introduction to the industry, that includes specifically designed and developed programming at the show, meet-and-greet encounters with key industry leadership and in-show outings orchestrated by MPS.  
 
MPS President Brian Cohn commented, “Our industry offers so much to the career-minded young person. Without the benefit of a father in the industry, I highly doubt that I would have understood the full reality of the exciting future the auto care industry holds.”
 
He continued, “SPARK participants get a window into the reality and potential of their future in the auto care industry. Our hopes are that they personally benefit from the experience and that they share their experience with their classmates.”
 
The SPARK Initiative has a dual purpose, says MPS. “It won’t be by chance that our industry attracts the best and brightest,” Cohn concluded. “I hope the SPARK Initiative lights a fire under fellow industry members to come up with their own ways to creatively engage these young people and to get them excited about our industry. SPARK is an us and them initiative.”
                  
For more information, contact [email protected].

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