Auto Care Association

Profile and influence: enhancing its membership's profile and influence politically and financially is one of Auto Care Association's key undertakings. To that end, the Association's government affairs program represents the Auto Care industry and its members' interests before federal and state policymakers to ensure that their concerns are recognized and understood.

Membership growth and retention: to continually engage its members, the Association organizes or sponsors dozens of events per year to provide a forum for the industry to showcase its products, networking, and education. Many of these events are specifically for member communities who operate in specific market segments. Community members can meet to discuss common issues, make industry connections, and provide input for Association activities.

Standards adoption: Auto Care Association's mission is to develop technology standards and best practices that lower costs and increase efficiencies in the Auto Care industry supply chain. Auto Care Association has taken a leadership role in developing standards and best practices in e-commerce and technology. Through the leadership of the Auto Care Association technology standards committee, the Association has developed tools and practices that have come to be recognized as the industry standard. Standards developed specifically for the Auto Care industry accelerate the adoption of technology and lower the cost of integration. Auto Care Association serves as a neutral facilitator allowing competitors and trading partners from all industry segments to collaborate on solutions that benefit the entire Auto Care industry. Auto Care solved industry supply chain challenges by enhancing an already robust set of heavy, medium, light, and off-highway duty product standards. During the tax year, Auto Care Association translated more of the vehicle configuration database to spanish and added standards specific to vehicles sold in ecuador, peru, and costa rica. The Association also began offering an elearning resource to help its standards users better understand the vip tool.

Aapex trade show: aapex is the largest industry automotive aftermarket trade show in north america. Thousands of automotive professionals participated in the november 2021 event of which more than 57,000 were domestic and international buyers. The number of exhibitors in 2021 was 664. During the show, there were over 25 educational sessions offered in which attendees could participate.