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Guidepoint Systems uses car dealers to push telematics service.

Publication: Crain's Detroit Business
Publication Date: 08-MAR-04
Format: Online - approximately 605 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Guidepoint Systems uses car dealers to push telematics service.(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Terry Kosdrosky

Rand Mueller is using the car-dealer contacts he developed at the former Code-Alarm Inc. to run his latest venture.

When Audiovox Corp. bought Code-Alarm for $7.1 million two years ago, the two companies agreed to spin off the Guidepoint telematics service to Mueller.

Now Guidepoint Systems - a vehicle-tracking, in-car roadside assistance and navigation service - has a full year of sales behind it, a bank line of credit and minority investment from Texas-based Progressive Concepts Communications Inc., which runs Guidepoint's call center.

Pontiac-based GPSi L.L.C.,...

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