Retail

Cox Automotive: A 'house of brands' becomes a retail powerhouse

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Automotive within Cox
Distribution of Cox Enterprises' $18.1 billion in revenue in 2015 Cox (cable TV, broadband): $10.5 billion Cox Automotive: $5.9 billion Cox Media (newspapers, TV and radio stations, digital- and direct-marketing companies): $1.7 billion Source: Cox Enterprises

For many years, the universe of vendors to auto dealerships was stable. There was Reynolds and Reynolds and there was CDK Global, formerly ADP Dealer Services. After those two 400-pound gorillas in the space came everyone else -- a host of vendors, each with its own niche.

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