GlobalAutoIndustry.com Partners with Pacific Rim Alliance to Expand Its China Sourcing Solutions

TROY, Mich.--July 29, 2005--GlobalAutoIndustry.com, the leading worldwide portal and intelligence source for the automotive industry, today announced its partnership with Pacific Rim Alliance Ltd., a sourcing advisory firm offering automotive suppliers a complete, complementary range of services to provide access into China and the Asia Pacific region.

This initiative offers automotive suppliers additional help in setting up and defining their China strategy.

Whether automotive suppliers are looking to source, manufacture, or sell into the region, this alliance can provide the import, export, shipping and customs interfaces they need. Additionally, if suppliers are looking to understand the region and its strategic opportunities, to establish regional financing, or resolve an existing dispute, this partnership can offer them the skills, the experience and the personnel.

"We are extremely pleased with this new partnership as we believe it offers something truly unique in the sourcing area," says Michael DaMour, director of GlobalAutoSourcing, a division of GlobalAutoIndustry.com, adding, "Anytime you can offer this type of one-stop sourcing solution, it is a big advantage to our global automotive clients. We feel this partnership with Pacific Rim Alliance offers this for China as well as the whole Asia Pacific region."

"We're delighted to become a partner of GlobalAutoIndustry.com," said David J. Hemmings, president of Pacific Rim Alliance. "Opportunities are plentiful right now for auto suppliers, especially small- to medium-sized companies. China is not difficult, but it is different," Hemmings added. "We pride ourselves in helping U.S. companies understand those differences and develop a solid business strategy based on a crawl, walk, run approach."

About Pacific Rim Alliance

Pacific Rim Alliance Ltd. LLC. (PRA) is a Business Development Company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with offices in Grand Rapids, Shanghai and Guangzhou China, Taipei Taiwan and Sydney Australia. In November 2001, Mr. David Hemmings moved the company from Taipei, Taiwan to Grand Rapids Michigan to better serve the growing needs in the US Mid West. PRA provides one stop shopping to companies that want to Sell into China, Source Chinese Products, access China based Manufacture of their designs or move into China to establish their own China based Joint Venture or Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise.

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 provide targeted information and insight on doing business in foreign automotive markets and GlobalAutoIndustry.com Solutions provide effective international answers to suppliers' global business and operational needs. The Company's eJournals, including CHINAtalk, ASIAtalk, EUROtalk, AMERItalk, LATINtalk and GLOBALtalk HR, now reach over 23,000 automotive supplier subscribers worldwide.

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