"Climate Control Seat" Maker Amerigon Holds Annual Meeting

IRWINDALE, Calif., May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amerigon Incorporated announced today that it held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at the Company's headquarters, as scheduled. A quorum of shareholders was present in person or by proxy. All proposals submitted to the shareholders were approved, including the election of Directors to the Board of Directors.

The Directors reelected to serve until the next annual meeting were Oscar B. Marx, III, Chairman and CEO of Amerigon; Lon E. Bell, Ph.D., Vice Chairman of the Amerigon Board and President of BSST, LLC, the Company's research and development subsidiary; Francois J. Castaing, retired technical advisor to the Chairman of DaimlerChrysler; John W. Clark, Managing Member of Westar Capital Associates; Paul Oster, Chief Financial Officer of TMW Enterprises and James J. Paulsen, retired Ford senior executive.

The shareholders also approved an amendment to the 1997 Stock Incentive Plan. The amendment consists primarily of three objectives: (1) An increase in the aggregate number of shares available under the 1997 Plan; (2) Eligibility of non-employee directors for discretionary awards; and (3) The addition of initial options under the Non-Employee Director Program.

About Amerigon

Amerigon develops and markets its proprietary Climate Control Seat(TM) (CCS(TM)) products for automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This product significantly enhances individual driver and passenger comfort in virtually all climatic conditions by providing cooling and heating to seat occupants, as desired, through an active thermoelectric-based temperature management system. Amerigon is engaged in developing other proprietary thermoelectric-based heating and cooling products for the automotive and other market applications. Amerigon maintains sales and technical support centers in Detroit, Los Angeles, Japan and Germany.

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For further information, please contact Investors, Jill Cieslak of Allen & Caron Inc, +1-949-474-4300, jill@allencaron.com, for Amerigon Incorporated.