Midas and Big O Tires Roll with Comdata's Fleet Team

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--Aug. 2, 20043, 2004--Midas International, Inc., and Big O Tires(R), both market leaders in the vehicle maintenance industry, are the first to sign up to use Comdata's Fleet Team(TM), an online maintenance tracking system for customers.

Fleet Team captures key maintenance information as services and products are purchased. It is a data-rich logging system available at no additional cost to Midas and Big O customer fleet managers, offering significant customer management and cost-saving benefits. For merchants, Fleet Team easily and profitably strengthens customer relationships, builds incremental business, and attracts new customers.

Additionally, the program streamlines operations by reducing data entry and strengthens cash flow by relieving merchants of the burden of receivables management. Fleet managers can view management reports and, if they choose, drill down to individual line items. In addition to providing key maintenance history (including both cost and timing), Fleet Team can generate service milestone reminders and other key maintenance automation.

"We feel that Fleet Team enhances the value of our offering. It provides our customers

with additional tools to enable them to manage their fleets more effectively," Art Herman, National Account Sales Manager, Big O Tires, said. "There are features and benefits we can offer our customers with Fleet Team that they can't get elsewhere."

"At Midas, we feel that through Fleet Team, we receive the most complete package," Scott Kennen, Director of Fleet Services, Midas, said. "It offers the most functionality while giving us the ability to customize a program specifically for Midas and its customers."

"It creates win/win situations," said Pat Madigan, Comdata's Director of National Sales, Merchant Services, who was part of the team that developed Fleet Team. "It gives a lot of intelligence tools to both merchants and fleet managers that have not been available before, but are invaluable in helping serve their businesses better."

"We strongly believe Fleet Team establishes a new standard," Madigan says. "This is how merchants and fleets will do business together going forward.

About Comdata

Comdata Corporation (www.comdata.com) is a leading provider of transaction and payment services. Comdata provides credit and debit processing and reporting for commercial fleets and merchants, electronic cash, gift and smart/chip card programs for retailers and governmental agencies, pay card services for food, retail and other service industries, and point-of-sale equipment, software and auxiliary services for merchants and convenience stores. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., Comdata employs more than 1,500 people internationally. Comdata is a wholly owned subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Ceridian Corporation .