The 2025 FenderBender Industry Survey

With data collected from nearly 200 shops, the FenderBender Industry Survey provides a holistic overview of what's driving the nation's most profitable collision repair shops. 

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Our Mission

FenderBender is the resource dedicated to helping owners, operators, and managers work smarter and grow their collision repair businesses. Through real-world shop stories and expert advice, collision repair professionals learn about the latest business management strategies, issues, and motivation that lead to success in this rapidly evolving industry.
 

Real-World Stories That Inspire Collision Repair Success

In every issue, FenderBender includes original profiles of collision repair businesses as well as a feature article on a business topic and a Q&A with an industry leader.
 

Real Strategies For Collision Repair Success

Every issue includes business-building ideas for making money, saving money and working smarter in the Strategy department. Topics of these substantial original articles include: Customer Service, Education+Training, Finance+Operations, Human Resources, Law, Leadership, Sales+Marketing and Tech+Tools.
 

Fenderbender.com

Fenderbender.com, the online edition of FenderBender magazine, is the industry’s leading resource for strategies and inspiration for collision repair success. Along with offering our inspiring monthly features, you’ll find business strategies on specific channels, such as Customer Service, Education+Training, Finance+Operations, Human Resources, Law, Leadership, Sales+Marketing and Tech+Tools. You will also find the industry’s most comprehensive product, service and parts databases.
 

Editorial Advisory Board

As part of our mission to report and write about the most cutting-edge and relevant topics in the collision repair industry, we have recruited some of the best minds in the industry to advise us on our editorial content. Our four-member editorial advisory board will use its industry expertise to help us cover what’s important to shop owners and operators today. The board helps shape the broad editorial content of the magazine and provides the editors with direction from those who deal every day with the topics we cover. We believe our editorial advisory board, made up of a diverse combination of past and present shop operators, helps us develop a better editorial product, which improves the industry as a whole.