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Motor Age Presents Prestigious Top Shop Award To Peak Automotive in Apex for 2nd Consecutive Year
Posted: 08-28-2007 : APEX, N.C.

Apex, NC – Motor Age Magazine – a leading provider of print, event, and online media for the powersports, off-road and automotive aftermarket industries – is announcing that Brian and Kim Walker, owners of Peak Automotive, Apex, N.C., is one of the winner’s in Motor Age magazine’s Top Vehicle Repair Shops contest. No other shop in the country has received this honor for two consecutive years! The shop is featured in a special September 2007 issue of the magazine. Winning shops were chosen by a panel of qualified judges based on originality, practical business sense, and creativity. To help determine the winners, photographs and essays were submitted by each repair shop describing the history of their business and information on merchandising, customer service and community service practices.

“We have had some outstanding shops apply for this contest,” said Bill Cannon, Motor Age editor-in-chief. “The level of sophistication and expertise that they demonstrated is a testimony to the professionalism that is abundant in the entire U.S. motor vehicle repair industry.”

For being one of the Top Ten Shops, Peak will be featured in a two page article of the September issue of Motor Age. Peak Automotive is known for being “The Triangle’s Most Female Friendly Shop”; in addition, the shop was voted as The Best Mechanic in the Cary News Best of the West, and is a Bosch Certified Car Care Center. The Apex shop extends extraordinary customer service and professionalism to their clients. By offering professionalism paired with unique services from a very comfortable living room like waiting area equipped with wireless Internet access, a massage chair, a kids play area and café area to the shuttle, and highly personalized level of customer service Peak Automotive differentiates itself from all of the others. For more information on the shop, visit www.peakautomotive.com .

Motor Age’s first issue was published in September 1899. Today, Motor Age reaches an audience of 140,000 automotive service industry professionals – shop owners, service writers, and technicians – through its print publication, as well as reaching additional audiences through its multimedia diversity, including its website. With an experienced editorial staff, Motor Age strives to meet the critical information needs of the 21st century for its readers – the professionals who service America’s automotive fleet. Visit www.motorage.com for more information on the Top Shops or Motor Age Magazine.