VEHICLE repair network Acoat Bodyshop Services is about to launch an drive to expand its network from 107 members closer to the 135 bodyshops it envisages for optimum national coverage.

Coinciding with the expansion drive is a reorganisation of the regional structure of the company into Scotland and Northern Ireland, north east, north west, central southern, south west and Wales, Midlands, East Anglia and south east regions.