GlobalAutoIndustry.com Launches Global Online Supplier Community to Allow Automotive Suppliers Worldwide to Communicate and Do Business in a Secure Environment

TROY, Mich.--June 7, 2005--GlobalAutoIndustry.com, along with partner Creative System Dynamics, launches "GlobalAutoCommunity.com" -- a new, global supplier online community which allows suppliers to collaborate and do business with each other in a secure environment. GlobalAutoCommunity.com will allow suppliers to meet other suppliers from around the world as well as to collaborate, track, and manage their own supply chain.

In addition to providing suppliers with targeted search features, directory lists, and communication exchanges, GlobalAutoCommunity.com's easy-to-use interface will provide suppliers with the ability to organize, streamline, track, and centralize any type of project workspace. This powerful tool improves team communication and adds visibility to all steps of the project planning process.

"Suppliers will have access to one another by searching company name, product line, region of the world, and more," states Michael DaMour, Director of GlobalAutoIndustry.com, adding: "Suppliers will be able to communicate and exchange information, such as quotes, CAD files, purchase orders and more. They will also be able to view CAD files by using state of the art CAD visualization technology. All this is accomplished in a secure and controlled environment."

GlobalAutoCommunity.com will be powered by WebTrack, a next-generation, web-based project management and collaboration application, specifically designed to make project management trouble free and straightforward.

GlobalAutoCommunity.com is a subscription-based service with an introductory $95 monthly, per seat, user fee. A 30-day free trial is also currently being offered.

About GlobalAutoIndustry.com

GlobalAutoIndustry.com connects the worldwide auto supplier industry with the resources to effectively do business globally. Through the web site, www.GlobalAutoIndustry.com, auto supplier executives can find insight, solutions and strategies focused on doing business in the world's top automotive markets.

Monthly eJournals (EUROtalk, ASIAtalk, AMERItalk, CHINAtalk, LATINtalk and GLOBALtalk HR) provide targeted information and insight on doing business in foreign markets and GlobalAutoIndustry.com Solutions provide effective international answers to suppliers' global business and operational needs.

Parent company, HCI Group Ltd., is based in Troy, Mich., with European headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

For more information contact Michael DaMour at (248) 526-3312 or MDaMour@GlobalAutoIndustry.com.