Honest-1 Featured in Phoenix Business Journal

Honest-1 was recently featured in the Phoenix Business Journal in an article titled, "Honest-1 Auto Care sees big results with an emphasis on cleaner image".

The article, which includes two great photos, focused on how the Honest-1 team reconstructed the brand model to be more customer service focused, and how that new approach has yielded positive results for the growing franchise. The article included information about the sales success and growth the brand has enjoyed, and even points out the big differentiators the brand has created under the new customer-centric model that has drawn in more customers. 

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Honest-1 Auto Care sees big results with an emphasis on cleaner image

By: Tim Gallen

Taking your car to the mechanic often is not a pleasant experience. But Honest-1 Auto Care has spent the past few years rearranging that expectation. And its efforts are paying off.

The Scottsdale-based chain of automotive repair shops has seen year-over-year sales growth in excess of 30 percent over the past two years. Sales jumped 33 percent from 2011 to 2012, and so far this year, the company’s posting 36.5 percent sales growth over the previous year.

Automotive repair is a $52 billion industry, according to research firm IbisWorld.

Honest-1 Featured on Green is Good

Honest-1 was recently featured on SiriusXM radio's Green is Good, hosted by Electronic Recyclers International's John Shegarian.

This segment of the weekly radio show featured Honest-1 franchisee Erik Rhyne of Greensboro, NC. Rhyne expresses he took him passion for eco-friendly living from his experience as a technician for BMW which inspired him to start his Honest-1 Auto Care franchise. Rhyne's store features paperless billing and a store-side garden.

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My Plastic Free Life's Beth Terry, Honest-1 Auto Care's Erik Rhyne, WOW 1 DAY! Painting's Jim Bodden and BEst Buy's Leo Raudys

Erik Rhyne took his passion for eco-friendly living and his experience as a technician for BMW to start an Honest-1 Auto Care franchise in Greensboro, NC. At Rhyne’s shop, small touches like paperless billing, a store-side garden and complete parts recycling add up to big green savings.

“The automotive world is inherently a dirty world,” Rhyne admits. “In a lot of ways, that has just become a part of people’s mind frame — cars are dirty and that’s just how it is. That doesn’t mean we can’t be conscious of what we’re doing.”

Honest-1 Featured in IFA FranBlog

Honest-1 was recently featured in IFA FranBlog in an article titled, "This July 4th, IFA recognizes veterans who have started careers in the franchise industry".

Featured in the article is information about Portland, Oregon owner Steve Grimes. The paragraph details his military background and experience, as well as info about his Honest-1 businesses in Oregon and the upcoming opening of the Aloha location on July 5.

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This July 4th, IFA recognizes veterans who have started careers in the franchise industry

Steve Grimes
In 2007, after returning from a year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan with the 41st Brigade Combat Team of the Oregon Army National Guard, Steve Grimes was trying to decide what to do with the next chapter of his life.  Grimes found Honest-1, a young brand he felt he could grow with and opened his first location in Portland that September.  Six years later and he has been able to open four Honest-1 shops in Oregon and he will be opening his fifth Honest-1 location in Aloha, Ore., on July 5.  As a part of the grand opening, the first 50 customers will get biodegradable plant feed packets, five of which will win the customer free oil changes for a year.  He also has plans to open a sixth location in the next six months to a year.