"Now that Pendragon shareholders have approved Lithia's $484 million acquisition of the U.K. auto retailer, Lithia will gain a stake in Pendragon's Pinewood DMS, which would be spun off into a standalone company. Lithia and Pinewood plan to form a joint venture to bring a DMS to North America. "
https://www.autonews.com/dealers/cdk-ceo-revamp-plan-ahead-schedule
After Autonation, Lithia is one of CDK's biggest fish (No. 2 still)
Wonder if they are hiring in the US
They do not have to do it per dealership, but per Drive server, and migrate gangs of dealerships at once... they have maybe a score of those servers, and a very large in-house training department. Could be done in less than a year given the resources they have.
Interesting, but my Quick Look into pinewood reveals a company that is 200 strong? If they could migrate a dealership per day - it would take years to move all their business from CDK. Perhaps a fair long term goal…but it seems highly unlikely to be a speedy transition.