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Novelis Selects AutoCom as Agency of Record

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., Sept. 11 -- Novelis Inc., the world's leading supplier of rolled-aluminum products for the automotive industry, has selected AutoCom Associates as its automotive public relations agency of record in North America.

AutoCom provides public relations services and counseling to businesses working in the automotive industry, transportation and related fields. The firm is a member of the International Public Relations Network (IPRN), which has more than 42 affiliate agencies, 500 employees in 33 countries and $47 million in combined annual billings.

Based in Atlanta, Ga., with automotive sales and engineering facilities in Detroit, Mich., Novelis is also a recycler of post-consumer aluminum including used beverage cans, as well as process metal from Novelis' own plant production and from customer operations including automotive stamping plants.

Spun off from Alcan in January 2005, Novelis produces an estimated 19 percent of the world's aluminum rolled products. The company operates facilities in 11 countries on four continents with approximately 12,500 employees. Annual sales in 2005 totaled more than $8.4 billion.

More information is available on the Internet at http://www.novelis.com/ .

AutoCom's team of professional communicators has extensive working experience with Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler, as well as a number of European, Japanese and Korean automakers and their suppliers.

In addition to Novelis, AutoCom clients include: Autoweb, Behr America, dSPACE, Focus: HOPE, Forgotten Harvest, FormTech Industries, Gage Products Company, Grammer Automotive, GKN Driveline, GKN Sinter Metals, Hella KGaA Hueck & Company, Hella North America, Hella Inc., MANN+HUMMEL, Stuttgart (Germany) Region Economic Development Corporation, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Safford & Baker, Thetford Corporation, TI Automotive and Wallonia (Belgium) Office for Foreign Investors. Additional information is available at http://www.usautocom.com/ .