Honest-1 Auto Care on Entrepreneur Honest-1’s Rick
DuChene and Steve Ahrens were recently featured in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The reporter began the story by noting that
the snow started flying last week, and many drivers were knocking on the
doors of Honest-1 before opening time to get new tires. The problem is
the winter weather began hitting before most drivers expected. Rick and
Steve did a great job discussing the importance of having the tires
checked and rotated. Steve also mentioned that drivers should budget
$100 a month for routine car maintenance.Honest-1 Auto Care on WBNS-10TVHonest-1 in La Mesa CourierHonest-1 in The Press and News
Franchisee Profile: Brad Neuman and Tim Fiedler
Tom Watson’s Honest-1 in Prior Lake has just celebrated a milestone: servicing 5,000 cars. As a result, they celebrated by giving the 5,000th
customer (Lynn Watson) a gift certificate for a free oil change. This
Honest-1 shop has worked its way to one of the top shops in the Honest-1
system for revenue and car counts. And they won’t celebrate their 1st anniversary until November. Way to go Honest-1 Prior Lake, keep up the excellent work!
Rissy Sutherland of Honest-1 Auto Care was recently featured on FOX Business’ Varney & Company. In the segment, Rissy talked about why younger generations don’t know basic care, and provided some insight on how Honest-1 Auto Care has set out to change this lack of car care knowledge by educating families in all Honest-1
communities. Rissy did a great job with this segment, as she was very
genuine and engaged well with the host, and this made the segment more
entertaining and informative. During the segment, there were brand
photos and video displayed. Overall, this was a great brand segment that
positioned Honest-1 Auto Care as an expert in car care.Honest-1 Auto Care was recently featured in a brief entitled “New Auto Repair Business” in The Daily Pilot on August, 22, 2014. The brief was written by Daily Pilot business reporter Brad Zint about Honest-1 opening in Costa Mesa. Honest-1 Auto Care was recently featured in 1851project.com. The article features A.J. Velazquez, Honest-1 Regional Developer from South Florida. The article goes in depth about Velazquez's life and his travels through his life including his time serving for the Air Force.Honest-1 Franchisee Karen Conway was recently featured on 1851 Magazine. The article talks about Karen's plans to enter the Illinois market, and doing so she will be the first to enter into the state. The article also briefly goes over her history with Honest-1 and her future plans with the brand.
Honest-1 Auto Care's Facebook is giving fans the opportunity to ask any questions they may have about their vehicle. The option allows fans to ask questions that they may be too embarrassed or haven't had a chance to ask to their local mechanic. Make sure to get your questions in, and an Honest-1 expert will get the proper answer to you! 
Honest-1 Auto Care was recently featured in the Las Vegas Sun/VegasINC in an article titled, "Auto repair business turns over a new leaf." The article, which includes great photos, focused on how Rich Margo, Honest-1 Auto Care Franchisee and the
Honest-1 team took over the Las Vegas shop and turned it around to be
successful. The article included information about his background, why
he chose Honest-1, and even included address information for the Las
Vegas Honest-1 location.Honest-1 was recently featured in an article in Entrepreneur titled, "Franchise
Players: The Challenges of Finding Funding". Steve Grimes, Honest-1 Auto Care franchisee, learned all the
skills he needed to be a successful franchisee in the military: leadership
training, positive attitude and intense work ethic. However, when he returned
to the U.S. after a year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan and opened an
Honest-1 franchise, Grimes faced an unexpected challenge: finding funding.
Here's how he found the perfect bank for his needs as an auto franchisee.Brad McBride, 51, recently resigned from his job to pursue an opportunity proposed by his father-in-Ty Ray opens the segment elaborating on the 50th
anniversary of the Mustang and transitions into National Car Care
Month. He introduces Mike Baker to offer tips about preparing your car
from the winter season for the long spring trips ahead. Mike offers ways
to check different fluids, tire pressure and how if certain problems
are taken care of, how this could damage your car. Ty Ray mentions that these tips from Honest-1 can save listeners thousands of dollars and applauds Honest-1 Auto Care for transitioning with the weather from coast to coast. Around 7 mins and 30 seconds Ty Ray asks Mike about Honest-1 Auto Care, Mike mentions how the Bakers brought Honest-1 to Washington state and there is an Honest-1
coming to the Vancouver area in the next few months. Mike then goes
into detail how the cleanliness and inviting atmosphere is what inspired
Debbie and Mike to go into business with Honest-1.
He also mentions how wanted a place where they trusted their 3
daughters to go to. The final tip Mike gave was to make sure any
damaged belts in your car should be taken care of immediately.
Honest-1 Auto Care was recently featured in an article in Sun Thisweek on Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 about the Eagan Honest-1 Auto Care team winning the company’s Excellence Award. In the text of the article: "The Eagan Honest-1 Auto Care team recently was awarded the company’s Excellence Award for its
service. The award was for the team’s contribution to improvements in
customer service, operations, sales growth increase in 2013, 27.5
percent increase in car count, improved gross profit management and
results, and top quality level of service. Team members, from left, are
Robert Moehnke, Robert Whitehead, Miguel Mitchell, Collin Brown, Harold
Pearson, Ben Bromen and Vince Lanz."
Rissy Sutherland COO of Honest-1 Auto Care was recently featured in The Huffington Post. The article features Rissy’s experiences that have helped make her a
leader, how her previous employment helped her succeed in her current
role, her take on issues women face in the workplace, and mentors and
female leaders that have helped shape her career.The title of the article is “Auto repair shop scouting Charlotte:
Arizona-based company plans to add up to 15 area stores once it finds
locations and franchisees” and begins with information about how Eric
was training at corporate headquarters for his job of developing the
Charlotte area for Honest-1
and the road ahead of him finding potential franchisees. The article
then goes into what makes Charlotte good for expansion and talks about
the various ways in which Honest-1
builds out new locations, then gives some information about the brand.
The article closes with some great info about how quickly a new location
could be turned around, and the search for the right franchisee.
I connected with a franchise consultant while searching
for business opportunities. I wasn’t initially looking at franchises
in particular, but the concept appealed to me because of the proven business
model and support. 
Eric Renninger, 40,
has more than 15 years of experience in government, commercial and
environmental management. After spending four years in the Middle East on an
international federal government assignment, as the director of operations for
a large-scale government contractor based in Detroit, Renninger returned to the
US in 2013 to implement a business plan he had been developing for two years. 
