CareGard Offers a Big Texas "Howdy" to Attendees of the 2017 Industry Summit
CareGard Warranty Services, Inc. is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an open house at our home office in Grapevine, Texas to give a big Texas "Howdy!" to agents attending this year's Industry Summit. The summit will be taking place September 11-14 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, which is located just minutes away from where the company operates.
The open house is a great way to meet some of our "behind the scenes" personnel, including our best in industry claims team that is available for your customers' claims needs 24 hours a day 365 days a year. CareGard will give you the inside scoop on several exciting new products, demonstrate a new F&I app, and send you back to the conference with exclusive promotional giveaways. While there, you'll get to enjoy some of the best BBQ and cold beer Texas has to offer in CareGard's state of the art training facility.
We are excited to offer you the opportunity to put up your best horseshoe score for the chance to win our grand prize. The team at CareGard is looking forward to sharing their home town of Grapevine, Texas with the Industry Summit and will be keeping their doors open to all attendees over the duration of the event. Agents are invited to call or email Brandi at CareGard 817-552-4138 or bcoleman@afgusa.net, to schedule a time to take part this unique experience.
We look forward to seeing you and hope you can make it!
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