Clarion Earns the Honda Delivery Performance Award

DETROIT, May 19, 2004 -- Clarion Corporation of America was recently presented with the 2003 Honda Delivery Performance Award to recognize Clarion's outstanding product quality and delivery performance.

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Clarion supplies radio head units for factory installation to Honda facilities in Canada and Alabama. Honda suppliers who receive this award, have to achieve perfect delivery and high quality index rankings in the Honda system over a year-long evaluation. Clarion was Honda's only audio supplier to receive the award this year and ranked in the top ten percent of this award category out of seventy suppliers.

"Clarion is very honored to receive this type of recognition from Honda, a very important and long-standing global customer of ours. We look forward to growing our business with Honda and Acura, and continuing our efforts to exceed Honda's quality and delivery requirements globally," stated Matt Matsuda, President of Clarion Corporation of America.

This award signifies the dedication and commitment Clarion has for continuous improvement in all aspects of product manufacturing, quality and delivery to achieve performance excellence.

About Clarion

Clarion Corporation of America has its headquarters in Gardena, California and is the subsidiary of Tokyo based Clarion Company Ltd. ranked among the top Global OEM Suppliers by Automotive News. Clarion, an international leader in car audio and electronics since 1940, is positioned as the number one independent car audio manufacturer. Clarion conducts research, development, engineering, design, manufacturing, sales and marketing of vehicle entertainment, navigation, communications and security products for the automotive and recreational vehicle environments, including IVCS (in-vehicle computing systems). Clarion has more than 9,000 employees worldwide and 24 factories in 10 countries, with marketing and sales affiliates in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. Clarion is located on the Web at www.clarion.com .

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