GlobalAutoIndustry.com Launches New Website; Improved Features and Functions for Accessing Global Success Tools for Automotive Suppliers Worldwide

TROY, Mich.--Feb. 2, 20062, 2006--GlobalAutoIndustry.com, the leading worldwide portal and intelligence source for the automotive industry, today announced the launch of its new website, www.GlobalAutoIndustry.com, that now offers improved features and user functions, including more product information on international business for automotive suppliers worldwide. The new website includes faster access to all eJournal articles and easy-to-locate free resources, such as downloadable documents, along with easy access to its new GlobalAutoTV Internet-based television network.

"As automotive suppliers continue to expand internationally, it is imperative that all levels of management have access to global expertise," states Ron Hesse, president and CEO of GlobalAutoIndustry.com, adding, "A new and improved www.GlobalAutoIndustry.com will provide management with those exact international tools needed to help them succeed around the world."

    Key features of the new site offer access to leading globalization
products and services, including:

    1.  eJournals -- EUROtalk, CHINAtalk, ASIAtalk, LATINtalk and
        AMERItalk eJournal archived articles, as well as to the
        GLOBALtalk HR eJournal articles

    2.  GlobalAutoTV -- The industry's first Internet-based television
        network for the automotive industry bringing global experts'
        expertise to every executive worldwide

    3.  Calendar of Events -- informative seminars, workshops and
        executive briefings

    4.  Downloads -- free guides, white papers, case studies, reports
        on global markets

    5.  GlobalAutoCommunity -- secure online community for conducting
        business globally

    6.  GlobalAutoUniversity -- effective tools for executive learning

    7.  GlobalAutoHRSolutions -- solutions for the global workforce

    8.  GlobalAutoStore -- products and market research for global
        markets

    9.  GlobalAutoExperts -- leading global experts network

   10.  GlobalAutoInsights -- coming soon!

To see our new website, please visit this webpage: http://www.GlobalAutoIndustry.com

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 24,000 automotive supplier subscribers worldwide.

The Company has hosted 75 seminars, with over 2,500 executives attending in the U.S., Europe and China.

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

For more information contact Ron Hesse at (248) 526-3312 or RHesse@GlobalAutoIndustry.com.