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Due to popular demand, CoolDrive Auto Parts and TAFE NSW have scheduled an additional two-day automotive air-conditioning training course for October 3-4, 2025, following the success of their August program. It is the last opportunity to partake in this training in 2025. The accredited course at CoolDrive’s Yatala facility provides automotive professionals with the certification Continue reading October session announced: Accredited auto-AC training with CoolDrive and TAFE NSW

VASA member CoolDrive Auto Parts has received a Deloitte Best Managed Companies award for 2022, along with eight other Australian companies that have also been recognised for organisational success and achievement. A notable accomplishment The programme, first introduced in Canada in 1993, uses Deloitte global insights and global best practises, developed over more than 30 Continue reading CoolDrive ranked among Australia’s best privately managed companies by Deloitte

Shirley (left) and JB Senior

Shirley Blanchard, who with the late John Blanchard Senior founded what is today Australia’s largest family-owned importer and wholesaler of automotive parts, has passed away. In a statement, CoolDrive Auto Parts said: “With Senior’s attention to detail and entrepreneurial spirit, combined with Shirley’s business sense and organisational skills, the CoolDrive business grew exponentially, setting the Continue reading Vale Shirley Blanchard