ADVISORY/Pep Boys Looks to Next 80 Years as `Do-It-For-Me' Decades.Business Editors & Automotive/Consumer Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday (Sept. 6) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Pep Boys (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PBY PBY US Navy medium to heavy twin amphibious aircraft used for maritime patrol, water bomber, and search and rescue ), which this year celebrates 80 years as the nation's leading full service automotive aftermarket retail and service chain, sees the future as the "do-if-for-me decades." As the only company in the industry capable of servicing all four segments of the automotive aftermarket -- do-it-yourself (DIY DIY abbr. do-it-yourself DIY or d.i.y. Brit, Austral & NZ do-it-yourself DIY abbr DIY do it yourself a DIY shop/job. ), do-it-for-me (DIFM DIFM Do It for Me (as opposed to Do It Yourself) DIFM Due-In From Maintenance DIFM Digital Instantaneous Frequency Measurement DIFM Distributed Interactive Fire Mission ), buy-for-resale and replacement tires -- Pep Boys expects the recent growth in the repair and maintenance service labor category (nearly $112 billion annually) to continue to outpace out·pace tr.v. out·paced, out·pac·ing, out·pac·es To surpass or outdo (another), as in speed, growth, or performance. outpace Verb [-pacing, the growth in DIY (which amounted to $36 billion last year) as vehicles continue to increase in complexity and consumers' "time" continues to grow in importance. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3877. This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download video, audio, text, graphics and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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