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Burlington, VT – Dealer.com, the global leader in automotive Internet marketing solutions, today announced that Mitch Truwit and Marcelo Gigliani of Apax Partners will be joining the company’s Board of Directors.  Apax Partners recently acquired

ATLANTA – Since launching its mobile platform in February 2010, Manheim has received more than 2 million customer visits to its mobile site. In the first six months of 2011 alone, Manheim reached 1 million mobile visits – a feat that took nearl

IRVING, Texas  – Exeter Finance Corp., a specialty auto finance company, announced it has been acquired by Blackstone from Navigation Capital Partners (NCP). Blackstone plans to invest up to $277 million in the transaction. NCP and the Exeter mana

Waltham, Mass. – DealerRater®, the nation’s premier car dealer review website, announced today an additional feature of its Certified Dealer Program that will enable dealers to better showcase employee-specific review pages.   With this en

RICHFIELD, Ohio — OEConnection LLC, the leading online parts and service exchange in the automotive industry, announced today that Southeast Toyota Distributors, LLC (SET), the world’ s largest independent distributor of Toyota and Scion

Madison, Ind. – Tata Motors, India’s largest automobile company, has approved two Rotary Lift electric hydraulic lifts for its dealer network. The approved SPOA10-3SA and AT07 two-post lifts are sold in India through Rotary’s distribution part

A frustration often expressed by salespeople who regularly follow-up on web-generated leads, no matter the source, is not being able to engage the customer in conversation when they reach them. Salespeople often are met with resistance and cannot und

CLEVELAND — A troubled but enduring automotive supply chain in the United States can become stronger if a more collaborative strategy can gain wider acceptance, a research team at Case Western Reserve University has determined. The report, The

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LIBERTYVILLE, IL – Google Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of abo