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                 BEST LARGE SHOP – QUEENSLAND
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  GABBA COLLISION REPAIR CENTRE
QUEENSLAND LIKES THINGS BIG. PINEAPPLES, BARRAMUNDI, WHATEVER. GABBA COLLISION REPAIR CENTRE IS NO EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.
through front office, through customer relations: everything.”
Clearly he’s a fan. But this strategy of breaking down a job to its constituent elements can apply to every part of the business, which is the way Economidis has approached it. His parts room, for instance, has changed immeasurably.
“It’s become really easy to find stuff with our itemisation as well,” explains Econo- midis, “The boys come up, and we’ve got parts ready, and away you go. It eliminates downtime looking for parts. We’ve also got a young fella in here who’s our stock-keep- er. All the parts go through him.”
Economidis has also broken accounts away from daily administration, giving his finance team its own offices from
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ITH OVER 6000 SQUARE METRES
of space under cover, it took Paint and Panel a full hour to walk around this workshop
has sharpened his focus onto more sub- stantial jobs: “It’s the big heavy stuff that this place was built for, and from Monday it’s just day-in, day-out.”
Since we last visited the Gabba in 2016 (when they took out the Best Large Shop Award ), Economidis and his team have made plenty of other improvements around the place, chief among which is their recent conversion to iBodyshop. “We changed over in September last year, and it’s been fantastic. I can’t speak highly enough about it,” said Economid- is. “I’m getting to the point where I’m not losing anything. Almost everything is itemised. iBodyshop has helped us amaz- ingly through invoicing, through quotes,
(via zoom, of course).
“We had just crazy amounts of vol-
umes and we needed the space, so we expanded across the road,” explains Paul Economidis, Managing Director at Gabba Collision Repair Centre. “At the moment, we’re talking about 80 or 90 a week, but at its peak, outside of COVID, it can get up to 160 vehicles. We had to be able to deliver to everybody’s expec- tations with that number of cars.”
With the number of cars passing through Gabba Collisions, Economidis
         SIZE: 6000m2 main building, 600m2 delivery centre 1000m2 storage and panel bays
STAFF: 50
NUMBER OF CARS: 80-90 per week
OEM approvals: Subaru, Jaguar Land Rover, Toyota, Volvo, Genisis
TYPE OF REPAIRS: All types
OTHER SERVICES: Mechanical, tyre,
PDR, wheels
TYPE OF REPAIRS: All
             







































































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