Founded in 1975, IMR conducts syndicated and proprietary market research studies that focus on the automotive industry including the automotive aftermarket, heavy duty and fleet segments. IMR’s research portfolio and service offerings provide a wide range of strategic and tactical solutions that provide insight into your most pressing questions. With a focus on industry trends, DIY/DIFM consumer parts and service purchasing behavior, repair shop purchasing behavior, channel trends and many other important metrics, IMR’s research provides insight into your market that can bring you closer to your customers, distribution channels and market opportunities.
This year’s survey results showed that 40.8 percent of shops said that their first call supplier carried mostly private label parts with only a few national branded parts options...
IMR surveyed 500 independent repair shops across the country to understand what they see as their biggest challenges for 2022 as well as any future challenges they see.
