11.15.21 – At the Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of New Jersey (AASP/NJ) Annual Meeting on October 20, D&M Auto Body of Old Bridge was awarded the Stan Wilson/New Jersey Automotive Shop of the Year award. Shop manager Dennis Cataldo, Jr. (AASP/NJ collision chairman) accepted the award on the shop’s behalf.
“This award was established in honor of a member who gave his life to the association,” AASP/NJ Past President Jeff McDowell said during the presentation. “Stan Wilson happened to be my personal best friend, and after he was taken way too soon, we re-dedicated the award in his memory, and it became the Stan Wilson/New Jersey Automotive Shop of the Year Award. I’m proud to give this year’s award to Dennis Cataldo of D&M Auto Body.”
Accepting his plaque, Cataldo addressed attendees, “The only way we’re going to move forward [as an industry] is if we start working together. A lot of people throw the word ‘competitor’ around, but I don’t think that we’re really competitors; we have no reason to be in competition with one another. When we’re all working toward moving in the same direction, I think we can really go somewhere.”
For more information on the AASP/NJ Annual Meeting, please stay tuned for coverage in the December 2021 issue of New Jersey Automotive, which will be available at grecopublishing.com.
For more information on AASP/NJ, visit aaspnj.org.