AutoVantage.com and The Cobalt Group Announce Partnership to Enhance Used Car Listings; Co-Branded Listings Expand Choice, Improve Buying Experience.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1999-- AutoVantage.com, a leading interactive car buying service, and The Cobalt Group (Nasdaq:CBLT CBLT Contract Bridge League of Thailand CBLT Cheese Bacon Lettuce Tomato (sandwich) ), a leading provider of Internet marketing See Internet advertising. solutions to automotive dealerships, today announced an agreement that will give visitors to the AutoVantage.com Web site access to the used car listings of The Cobalt Group's base of more than 4,500 dealer client sites. The Cobalt Group also will be responsible for polling, updating and tracking used car inventory information for AutoVantage.com dealers nationwide. "Used cars are becoming increasingly important as a percentage of cars purchased through the Internet," said Ken Esterow, Vice President of NetMarket Group Inc., AutoVantage.com's parent company. "Consumers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. savings and a wider range of choices are turning to services like AutoVantage.com to find the right used car. Through this partnership with Cobalt, a trusted automotive leader, dealers in the AutoVantage.com Network now have a comprehensive interactive solution to effectively market their used cars." "The lifeblood of successful car shopping sites like AutoVantage.com is comprehensive, current listings," said Diane Wetherington, Vice President-Marketing at The Cobalt Group. "We look forward to increasing choice and opportunity for AutoVantage.com's large body of users and its dealer network." AutoVantage.com AutoVantage.com is one of the most comprehensive free car-buying services on the Internet, providing savings and convenience at each step in the car-buying process. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent survey, it ranks second in marketshare among the leading services. AutoVantage.com is accessible via the Web (http://www.autovantage.com), via America Online See AOL. (keyword: AV), where it is co-branded with AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , and via toll-free number (1-800-AutoVantage). AutoVantage.com is part of Stamford-based Netmarket Group Inc. (NGI (Next Generation Internet) A project of the U.S. government for researching high-speed network technologies for use by federal agencies. See Internet2. ), one of the largest providers of consumer products and services on the Internet. Its six unique, high-growth Internet businesses -- Netmarket.com, Hagglezone.com, AutoVantage.com, PrivacyGuard, FareAgent and Travelers Advantage -- generate approximately $70 million in annual revenues, with diverse revenue streams from memberships, transactions and advertising. In addition, NGI provides e-commerce outsourcing solutions. Netmarket Group's businesses on the Web and America Online can be found at: http://www.netmarket.com, AOL Keyword: netmarket http://www.travelersadvantage.com, AOL Keyword: travelersadvantage http://www.autovantage.com, AOL Keyword: autovantage http://www.privacyguard.com, AOL Keyword: creditalert http://www.hagglezone.com, AOL Keyword: hagglezone http://www.fareagent.com The Cobalt Group The Cobalt Group(TM) (Nasdaq:CBLT), based in Seattle, is a leading provider of automotive e-commerce products and services. Through Web development and hosting, data management and online car shopping services, Cobalt drives value to consumers, dealers and manufacturers nationwide. With more than 4,600 dealer customers, the company has been endorsed by 11 auto manufacturers and more than 50 of the 100 largest dealer groups in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Cobalt operates DealerNet(R) (www.dealernet.com), one of the best-known automotive destination sites on the Web, and PartsVoice (www.partsvoice.com), a leading OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and auto parts Auto parts are components of automobiles. They mainly are, in alphabetic order (only car specific articles or articles with car section):
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