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Greg Baszucki Named Executive Vice President of The Cobalt Group
Baszucki co-founded Dealix Corporation with Jon Christensen in 1998, growing the company from a start-up to a multi-million dollar enterprise and the market leader in online automotive marketing services and online sales leads. Dealix was acquired by The Cobalt Group in 2004. As part of the larger combined company, Baszucki will oversee the expansion and day-to-day operations of the Dealix business unit. Christensen will work closely with Cobalt CEO and president John Holt as key strategist.
“As an executive, Greg has an outstanding track record of building a strong team and consistently surpassing both revenue and profit goals, while delivering superb products to Dealix’s customers,” said Holt. “We are pleased that he and Jon will be on board to take this business unit to even greater heights. Their ongoing commitment to the business underscores Cobalt’s vision of delivering continued value to our customers and shareholders.”
“It’s an honor to be a part of this larger organization,” said Baszucki. “Dealix and Cobalt have some exciting new products and services coming to market over the next few months, which promise to deliver even more efficiencies to our customers. The sky is really the limit on what we can achieve. I look forward to being a part of our ongoing success.”
The combined company, which includes the Cobalt Applications Business Unit; Dealix; and Integralink, a parts inventory database and locator service, delivers a complete end-to-end retailing solution to auto dealers and manufacturers.
About The Cobalt Group
The Cobalt Group is North America's leading provider of automotive marketing services. For more than a decade, Cobalt's exclusive mission has been to help automobile dealers and manufacturers increase their retailing effectiveness and profits. Cobalt provides marketing services to more than half the automotive dealerships in the United States, Canada and Mexico and is endorsed by more than two-thirds of the world's major automotive manufacturers. Cobalt is endorsed by the American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA) and the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA®).
About Dealix Corporation
Dealix Corporation, a division of The Cobalt Group Inc., is the expert and leader in automotive Internet marketing services and online sales leads. Dealix connects thousands of serious vehicle buyers with automobile dealerships, large dealer groups, and automotive manufacturers every day. Dealix owns and operates InvoiceDealers.com, one of the industry's leading auto buying portals and the largest source of Internet sales leads processed through the Dealix Lead Trading PlatformSM (LTP), a suite of proprietary technology products and business services. The Dealix LTP processes over 2.2 million vehicle shoppers monthly from InvoiceDealers and the Dealix Lead Acquisition NetworkSM, a collection of preeminent partner websites. Dealix publishes the Dealix Dealer Newsletter, the largest circulation e-newsletter in the auto industry dedicated to helping dealers sell more vehicles via the Internet. Dealix also provides market intelligence via its data analysis division, Dealix Business IntelligenceSM (DBI). DBI's concise reports, derived from broad scale market data, provide insight into what's working in the online automotive industry, giving Dealix partners a distinct competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.dealix.com.
Visit www.cobaltgroup.com and www.dealix.com to learn more; or call 800-909-8244.
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The Cobalt Group, Inc.
Phone (206) 219-8256
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