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Eric Lawrence
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ELawrence@BlackBookUSA.com
May 5, 2008
Dealer Specialties Adds Black Book®
Values
Gainesville, GA – Black Book,
best known in the Automotive Industry for publishing timely, independent, and
accurate used vehicle values, is pleased to announce that Dealer Specialties,
the nation’s leading provider of vehicle data collection, image generation,
window labeling services, and inventory management solutions, has incorporated Black
Book’s vehicle valuations and descriptions as an integral part of their
dealership management software.
Glen Garvin, General Manager
of Dealer Specialties, commented: “Dealerships across the country rely on Dealer
Specialties to help manage and market their online vehicle inventory. With the enhanced features of our recently
released Inventory Manager 2.5 dealers
have more tools in their arsenal providing them with detailed data to make
educated inventory decisions. Black
Book’s used vehicle descriptions and pricing information is a valued added
enhancement to this data and a natural fit with our used vehicle valuations. Inventory Manager 2.5 is intended to further
simplify the vehicle management process so a dealer knows what he/she has on
hand at all times. Concurrently, Dealer
Specialties provides dealers with the inventory intelligence to help recommend when
and how to sell underperforming units.”
Tom Cross, President of Black
Book, added: “Inventory management has become increasingly important during the
past year. The used vehicle market has
become much more competitive due to the franchised dealer’s increased focus on
used vehicle operations as a result of the steep decline in new vehicle sales. The most vital requirement of any inventory
management system is having timely, independent, and accurate values - in this
highly competitive environment, dealers just can’t risk using old pricing data
that might be off by several hundred dollars or possibly even more. We’ve been providing the automotive and
financial industries with timely, independent, and accurate market data for
more than fifty years, and now publish our information daily to further ensure
our time-tested accuracy. We welcome this
opportunity with Dealer Specialties to further serve our industry.”
Best known in the Automotive
Industry for providing timely, independent, and accurate vehicle pricing data,
the Black Book® family of vehicle appraisal guides (www.BlackBookUSA.com)
is published by National Auto Research, a division of Hearst Business
Media. New and used car dealers,
lenders, manufacturers, fleet remarketers, and government agencies have relied
on Black Book since 1955. Black Book
provides values for both new and used vehicles, including cars and light trucks
produced since 1946, motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, personal watercraft, and
heavy duty commercial trucks and trailers.
Black Book data is published daily
in multiple electronic formats including data feeds, Internet-based
applications, hand held PDAs, web enabled cell phones, Pocket PCs, BlackBerry
and Palm devices, SmartPhones, Micro Browsers, online trade appraisal
services, and in a variety of other custom
products. Printed versions are also
available on a weekly basis. Whether you’re
buying, selling, or lending, Black Book’s mission is to provide the Automotive
Industry with timely, independent, and accurate information to help make the right decisions.
Dealer
Specialties, a division of Dominion Enterprises, provides on-the-lot services
and in-house solutions. Dealer
Specialties has the industry’s largest Internet distribution channel with more
than 1,600 partners including GetAuto.com, Cars.com, eBay Motors,
Overstock.com, Google Base, AutoTrader.com, The Cobalt Group, Manheim, and
more. Nearly 10,000 dealerships rely on
Dealer Specialties to help manage and market their vehicle inventory. For more information on Dealer Specialties,
visit www.dealerspecialties.com.