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‘AutoServe’ to kick off on November 7

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Second biggest showcase event

CHENNAI: ‘AutoServe 2008,’ the automotive service sector’s second biggest showcase event, will begin at the Chennai Trade Centre on November 7.

The third edition of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s biennial event, that brings together stakeholders in the “after market service” sector of the automotive industry, will feature 75 exhibitors and is expected to attract 30,000 visitors, a 30 per cent increase in scale over the previous edition.

Seminars will run concurrently during the three-day event.

Business leaders from the U.K., Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will lend an international flavour to the show, R. Dinesh, chairman, ‘AutoServe 2008’ and Joint Managing Director, T. V. Sundaram Iyengar and Sons Ltd, told The Hindu.

‘Profitability through safety and maintenance’ is the theme of a seminar that will have participants from automotive care, maintenance, service, spare parts and garage equipment. Experts will highlight preventive maintenance, as opposed to repair, as a ‘profit concept.’

Organisers of ‘AutoServe,’ which is second in terms of scale only to the ‘Auto Expo’ in Delhi, plan to reach for the moon by scaling up the biennial event to the class of ‘Auto Mechanica’ in Germany when the fourth edition comes along in 2010.

Chennai, they point out, is a deserving host, as it is tagged as a regional hub of the automotive industry.

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