ADP Acquires EDS Automotive Retail Group
By Cliff Banks Ward's Dealer Business, Apr 1, 2004 12:00 PM

The Dealer Services Group of Automatic Data Processing Inc. is purchasing Electronic Data Systems Automotive Retail Group.

The group has about $30 million in annual revenue and 200 employees. It will remain a separate operating unit of ADP.

EDS formed the automotive division shortly after being acquired by General Motors Corp. in 1984. It provided dealer management systems solely to GM dealers until 1996, when it split from GM and was allowed to pursue non-GM dealers.

EDS has been Saturn Corp.'s primary dealer-management-systems provider since 1988. Saturn renewed the contract with EDS in 2002.