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🔦TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT🔦

Car wash executive to take strategic role at U.S. Department of Energy

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✂️SHORTCUTS✂️

   Editor’s Picks 👇

• Surging earnings estimates signal upside for Mister Car Wash stock: Mister Car Wash appears an attractive pick to investors given a noticeable improvement in the company’s earnings outlook. The stock has been a strong performance lately, and the momentum might continue with analysts still raising their earnings. The five-grade Zacks Rank system, which goes from Strong Buy (5) to Strong Sell (1), has Mister Car Wash listed at 2 (Buy). The system has an impressive externally audited track record of outperformance. Read more here.

   Express Hits  🎯 

• Sud Stop Car Wash recent opened its newest location in Mount Dora, Florida, and is offering a discount on its “Founders Club” membership through the end of March. Through March 31, Founders Club membership is $9.98 per month for the first three months on any of the site’s top three wash plans, a savings of up to $105. This Sud Stop location has a sub-four-minute wash tunnel with multiple cycles for bugs, tires, rain repel, finish protection and rapid drying.

• Inclement weather postponed the recent community grand opening at the Bubble Bath Car Wash in Converse, Texas, which was scheduled to celebrate the merger of Quik Trip and the San Antonio, Texas-based car wash company. The Converse Bubble Bath location is part of the first combined site with a QT. The grand opening gala has been rescheduled for March 15 but the car wash has been open since Feb. 23.

• Quick Quack Car Wash’s new location in Oakley, California, donated $17,000 to Bertha and Ma. Dolores, two parishioners of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, as part of the site’s recent grand opening this month. The money being donated to them is to help with their bills due to recent hardships they have experienced. “We are excited to expand our Quick Quack service and convenience to Oakley,” said Jason Johnson, CEO of Quick Quack.

  👉 More updates here.

   Making Waves Around the World  🌊 

• Appeal lodged after ‘absolutely ridiculous’ Acklam car wash plans rejected: An appeal has been lodged for a rejected residential car wash as the original proposals were labelled “ridiculous” at a recent Middlesbrough (England) Council’s planning and development committee. Resident Hewa Saleh had submitted the application to build a car wash on his property last year. The council’s planning officers rejected the application last December. At a Middlesbrough planning committee meeting earlier this month, the application was discussed and a council officer explained why it was not possible to simply reject or ignore the application without first giving it due consideration with one council member calling the plan “absolutely ridiculous.” Read more here.

   What’s Coming Up  📅

• APEC 2025: The leading conference in North America for power electronic professionals will take place March 16-20, 2025, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. More info here.

• Heartland Carwash Association 2025: The organization’s annual product and equipment show will take place March 24-26, 2025, at the Mid America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. More info here.

• Midwest Petroleum & C-Store Tradeshow 2025: With over 300 exhibitors, “M-PACT” will showcase the latest products, services and technologies April 1-3 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Ind. More info here.

• Upper Midwest Convenience Store and Energy Convention 2025: UMCS is a collaboration between FUELING MINNESOTA and FUELIowa trade associations and held April 7-9, 2025, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. More info here.

• ICA Car Wash Show 2025: The ultimate gathering for car wash pros returns to the Las Vegas (Nevada) Convention Center April 26-28, 2025. More info here.

• Southwest Fuel & Convenience Expo 2025: The premier event for fuel, food and convenience retailers in the Southwest United States is set for June 9-11, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas. More info here.

• Car Wash Show Europe 2025: The leading car wash trade fair in Europe takes place Sept. 24-25, 2025, at EXPO Greater Amsterdam in the Netherlands. More info here.

• Northeast Regional Carwash Convention 2025: The NRCC, scheduled for Oct. 6-8, 2025, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, includes educational seminars, keynote speakers, and a large trade show. More info here.

❓DID YOU KNOW❓

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