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Automotive Industry Action Group Honors Outstanding Volunteers At Annual Awards Dinner

DETROIT, Aug. 31, 2004 -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) will honor individuals and member companies tonight for their outstanding contributions to the automotive industry at AIAG's annual Outstanding Achievement Awards dinner.

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The collaborative efforts of these individuals and companies have resulted in industry guidelines and global standards that are widely used throughout the global supply chain. AIAG will honor 27 Individual Outstanding Achievement Award winners, two Lifetime Achievement Award winners and one Corporate Award winner. Nick Scheele, president of Ford Motor Co., will keynote the dinner. He will discuss the importance of collaboration between automakers and suppliers and the positive impacts on the automotive industry.

"The work of our outstanding member companies and volunteers is crucial to the quality, safety and the future of every company that works in the automotive industry," said Andrew J. Cummins, executive director and CEO of AIAG. "The dinner is a formal salute and tribute for their efforts that will leave a mark on the industry for years to come."

Held during the week of Auto-Tech 2004, the AIAG Outstanding Achievement Awards Dinner will be held at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center at 7 p.m.

In its 17th year, Auto-Tech brings together automotive OEMs and suppliers to share technology standards and processes that reduce cost and complexity in business and manufacturing processes. The theme of Auto-Tech 2004 is "Driving Performance Together," and exhibitors on the 52,000-square-foot exhibit floor will include leading automotive manufacturers and technology and automotive suppliers. More than 150 exhibitors and nearly 4,000 auto industry executives are expected to participate in Auto-Tech 2004.

  2004 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients

  Individual Award                       Company

  Sasha Banks-Louie                      Syncata
  Cara A. Besh                           DaimlerChrysler Corporation
  Irvin Chmielewski                      --
  Richard M. Dufour                      General Motors Corporation
  Charles S. Fenton                      Sterling Commerce
  Mary L. Foster                         Ford Motor Company
  Donald L. Galway                       Dana Corporation
  Eugene Greenstein, Ph.D.               Visteon Corporation
  Cameron T. Hill                        DaimlerChrysler Corporation
  Aidan Hughes                           Gates Corporation
  Kenneth A. Hulik                       General Motors Corporation
  Carol J. Johnson                       DaimlerChrysler Corporation
  Philip Marlow                          Visteon Corporation
  David F. Myers                         CTS Automotive Products
  Donald J. Myers                        Haldex Commercial Vehicle Systems
  Terry Onica                            QAD
  Stephen L. Paul                        Federal Mogul Corporation
  Gary M. Pilarski                       Delphi
  Teresa L. Pratt                        Delphi
  Todd Pronger                           Robert Bosh Corporation
  Darrell Schwartz                       Metaldyne
  Stephen E. Selander                    Warner Norcross & Judd LLP
  Rolf B. Sletten                        Ford Motor Company
  Jorg Alexander Vollmer                 Robert Bosch GmbH
  Dr. Anna M. Wasmer                     PDTec GmbH
  Daniel R. Wozniak                      Ford Motor Company
  Patricia A. Toufar                     Infor Global Solutions, Inc.

  Corporate Award

  Dana Corporation

  Lifetime Award

  Larry Higgason (posthumous)            --
  Dean Pierson                           DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Founded in 1982, AIAG is headquartered in the metro Detroit area. Its more than 1,600 member companies include North American, European and Asia- Pacific OEMs and suppliers to the automotive industry with combined sales of more than $840 billion. A not-for-profit association, AIAG's primary goals are to reduce cost and complexity within the automotive supply chain and to improve speed to market, product quality, employee health and safety and the environment. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.aiag.org/ .

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