<article>Roadside assistance services provider<a href="http://www.crossroadshelpline.com/"> Crossroads India</a> has acquired online car garage aggregator <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.mericar.com/">MeriCAR.com</a>, according to <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.livemint.com/Companies/SN3WXtHJ7GkORyJTN9QggO/Crossroads-acquires-MeriCAR-to-scale-up-garage-network.html">a report</a> by Press Trust of India quoted in Livemint.</article>

Roadside assistance services provider<a href="http://www.crossroadshelpline.com/"> Crossroads India</a> has acquired online car garage aggregator <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.mericar.com/">MeriCAR.com</a>, according to <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.livemint.com/Companies/SN3WXtHJ7GkORyJTN9QggO/Crossroads-acquires-MeriCAR-to-scale-up-garage-network.html">a report</a> by Press Trust of India quoted in Livemint.
While the financial details of the deal were not disclosed, the move, aimed at expanding Crossroads&#8217; network across the country, will help the company surpass 1,000 branded garages.
The company aims to grow the number of branded garages to 5,000 in the next two years.
“This acquisition would help us build a branded garages network across India using MeriCAR’s existing network infrastructure,” Crossroads chief operating officer Puneet Sharma said.
Post the acquisition, MeriCAR&#8217;s team has joined Crossroads, which will enable the company to hasten its garage aggregation process, seen as a key growth driver going forward, said Sharma.
As part of the deal, MeriCAR.com founder Rakesh Sidana will be joining Crossroads and will head a newly created vertical—point of sales and services network.
MeriCAR, touted as India&#8217;s first online car garage aggregator, was established in 2008 with a listing model.
“Currently, we have 500-plus employees along with affiliated 30,000 partner network and our target is to reach the 1,500 plus employees with the 50,000 partner network mark by 2017,” Sharma said.
Crossroads started operations in 1999 and has a business to consumer operations in 12 cities and network presence in 30 cities across the country.
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Roadside assistance services provider Crossroads India has acquired the online car garage aggregator MeriCAR.com.

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