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Thursday, December 9, 1999

ABRA Auto Body & Glass Named Collision Business of the Year

ABRA Auto Body & Glass Named Collision Business of the Year

ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a Minneapolis-based damaged vehicle repair company, announced it has received the 1999 Collision Business of the Year (Category 3-Chain Operations) award. ... Continue reading

ADP Collision Repair Services and Akzo Nobel Announce Release of Stellix 2.1

ADP Collision Repair Services and Akzo Nobel Announce Release of Stellix 2.1

ADP Collision Repair Services announced the commercial release of Stellix(TM) 2.1, a newly enhanced version of its Windows- based, 32-bit, multi-user collision repair management system. ... Continue reading

American Axle & Manufacturing Announces New Business With DaimlerChrysler

American Axle & Manufacturing Announces New Business With DaimlerChrysler

American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. announced that it has been selected as the supplier of front and rear axles for a DaimlerChrysler Dodge Ram full-size pick-up truck program beginning model year 2003. ... Continue reading

A. Schulman Reports Increased Product Demand Worldwide

A. Schulman Reports Increased Product Demand Worldwide

Worldwide demand for plastics compounds and resins of A. Schulman Inc. is increasing, but profit margins have declined, Terry L. Haines, president and chief executive officer, said at today's annual stockholder meeting. ... Continue reading

Autoco.com Signs Exclusive Deal to Promote Sherwood Products

Autoco.com Signs Exclusive Deal to Promote Sherwood Products

Royal Oak Marketing Associates Inc., a subsidiary of Autoco.com Inc., announced that it has finalized a deal that gives it exclusive marketing rights for Sherwood Newcastle's home audio products in Canada. ... Continue reading

Automotive Sectors of Latin America: Set for Major Recovery From 2000

Automotive Sectors of Latin America: Set for Major Recovery From 2000

Brazil's economy has proved highly resilient, but consumers will remain stubborn and vehicle sales could fall by as much as 29% in 1999. ... Continue reading

Best-Ever November Sales Reported by Toyota's Chicago Region

Best-Ever November Sales Reported by Toyota's Chicago Region

Toyota's Chicago Region posted record car sales in November of 5,769 vehicles, a one percent increase over November 1998 when 5,726 were sold. ... Continue reading

'Booze It & Lose It' Nets 2,126 Impaired Driving Arrests

'Booze It & Lose It' Nets 2,126 Impaired Driving Arrests

North Carolina law enforcement officers made 2,126 driving while impaired arrests during the last "Booze It & Lose It" of the millennium, which lasted from Nov. 19 - Dec. 5. ... Continue reading

CART: Champ Car Racing says goodbye to distinguished official

CART: Champ Car Racing says goodbye to distinguished official

CART: Champ Car Racing says goodbye to distinguished official ... Continue reading

CART: Diane Holl joins Della Penna Motorsports

CART: Diane Holl joins Della Penna Motorsports

CART: Diane Hall joins Della Penna Motorsports ... Continue reading

CART: Lester determined after Indy Lights test

CART: Lester determined after Indy Lights test

CART: Lester determined after Indy Lights test ... Continue reading

CART: McDonald's Racing Team Making Changes

CART: McDonald's Racing Team Making Changes

CART: McDonald's Racing Team Making Changes ... Continue reading

CART: Player's rookie Tagliani impressive in first test session

CART: Player's rookie Tagliani impressive in first test session

CART: Player's rookie Tagliani impressive in first test session ... Continue reading

Cobra Electronics Introduces New 9-Band Radar System

Cobra Electronics Introduces New 9-Band Radar System

As part of its continued effort to provide motorists with the world's most highly-featured radar detection systems, Cobra Electronics Corporation, announced its ESD 9850. ... Continue reading

Dana Corporation Recognizes Its Top Suppliers for 1999

Dana Corporation Recognizes Its Top Suppliers for 1999

Dana Corporation recognized its top suppliers at its fifth annual Supplier Day held at the company's Technical Resource Park in Ottawa Lake, Mich. ... Continue reading

DCR Lowers Phelps Dodge's Debt Ratings

DCR Lowers Phelps Dodge's Debt Ratings

Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. (DCR) has lowered the senior unsecured debt and commercial paper ratings of Phelps Dodge Corporation. ... Continue reading

Decoma announces record fiscal 2000 first quarter results

Decoma announces record fiscal 2000 first quarter results

Decoma International Inc. announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2000 ended October 31, 1999. ... Continue reading

Delphi Automotive Systems Wins Wiring Contract with Volvo Truck

Delphi Automotive Systems Wins Wiring Contract with Volvo Truck

Delphi Automotive Systems announced it has won a new business contract to manufacture wiring harnesses for Volvo Truck North America's Class 8 commercial trucks, beginning with its current model production. ... Continue reading

Ford Brasil Proposal to Add Early Call and Put Provisions Approved

Ford Brasil Proposal to Add Early Call and Put Provisions Approved

Ford Brasil Ltd. has gained approval of the holders of each of its US $300 million 9.125 percent notes due 2004 million and its $200 million 9.25 percent notes due 2007 to add an early call to the terms of the notes. ... Continue reading

General Motors Selects Artesia Technologies' TEAMS 3.0

General Motors Selects Artesia Technologies' TEAMS 3.0

Artesia Technologies, Inc. announced today an agreement with General Motors to implement its TEAMS(TM) 3.0 Digital Asset Management solution. ... Continue reading

Gibraltar Declares Third Quarter 1999 Dividend Payment

Gibraltar Declares Third Quarter 1999 Dividend Payment

The Board of Directors of Gibraltar has declared a cash dividend of $.025 per share for the quarter ended September 30, 1999. The dividend will be payable on January 3 to shareholders of record on December 22. ... Continue reading

Honda Moves Forward in Alabama, Names New Company

Honda Moves Forward in Alabama, Names New Company

American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced "Honda Manufacturing of Alabama" as the new company that will manufacture vehicles and engines in Lincoln, Ala., beginning in 2002. ... Continue reading

How About a Gift for Your Car This Holiday Season?

How About a Gift for Your Car This Holiday Season?

We spoil our kids and pamper our pets, right? So, why not something special for you (and just say it's for that steel- framed friend in the driveway) this gift-giving season? ... Continue reading

Institutions Purchase Stake in Orbital

Institutions Purchase Stake in Orbital

A small number of institutional investors have purchased The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited's (BHP) shareholding in Orbital Engine Corporation Limited at a premium to the market price prevailing at the time of sale. ... Continue reading

IRL/CART: Indy Lights Veteran Higgins Passes Indy Racing League Rookie Test

IRL/CART: Indy Lights Veteran Higgins Passes Indy Racing League Rookie Test

IRL/CART: Indy Lights Veteran Higgins Passes Indy Racing League Rookie Test ... Continue reading

Johnson Controls Announces 1999 Supplier Performance Award Winners

Johnson Controls Announces 1999 Supplier Performance Award Winners

To recognize the exemplary performance of its supply base, Johnson Controls presented 18 suppliers with the company's distinguished 1999 Supplier Performance Awards. ... Continue reading

LKQ Corporation Announced Free Replacement Guarantee on Parts

LKQ Corporation Announced Free Replacement Guarantee on Parts

LKQ Corporation, America's largest recycler of automobile parts, announced the longest free parts-replacement guarantee in the parts recycling industry. ... Continue reading

Lucor, Inc. Announces Financial Performance for Third Quarter, 1999

Lucor, Inc. Announces Financial Performance for Third Quarter, 1999

Lucor, Inc., the largest Jiffy Lube franchisee in the United States, announced that revenue for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 1999 increased 49% to $59,942,632 over revenue of $40,345,455 reported for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 1998. ... Continue reading

Majestic to Develop SAFE-T-GARD Product for School Bus Industry

Majestic to Develop SAFE-T-GARD Product for School Bus Industry

The Majestic Companies Ltd. is pleased to announce the addition of a new product that can further enhance school bus safety, the SAFE-T-GARD, to its family of school bus safety products which currently includes the SAFE-T-BAR, and the SAFE-T-SEAT. ... Continue reading

Manufacturers Target Markets For Remote Vehicle Diagnostic Equipment

Manufacturers Target Markets For Remote Vehicle Diagnostic Equipment

Automotive, electronics, computing and telecommunications technologies are advancing to unparalleled levels, allowing automakers to equip cars with remote monitoring products. ... Continue reading

Martin Volz of Holmes Hyundai Places Fourth in Worldwide Hyundai Competition

Martin Volz of Holmes Hyundai Places Fourth in Worldwide Hyundai Competition

Holmes Automotive Group is proud to announce that Martin Volz, a technician at Holmes Hyundai, placed fourth in the World Skills Olympics held at Hyundai Motor Corporation's (HMC) World Training Center in Chon-An, Korea on October 21. ... Continue reading

Mercury Insurance Group Selects EazyImage for DRP Program

Mercury Insurance Group Selects EazyImage for DRP Program

GO Media, Inc., a leading Internet developer, announced the agreement between Mercury Insurance and EazyImage(TM), to be the single solution provider for Mercury's DRP Program in Southern California. ... Continue reading

Meritor's Roof Systems Forms Aftermarket Alliance with Autoroofs

Meritor's Roof Systems Forms Aftermarket Alliance with Autoroofs

The Roof Systems business of Meritor Automotive has announced the formation of a strategic distribution agreement with Autoroofs, UK Ltd. of Great Britain. ... Continue reading

Motor Acquires Chek-Chart From IDG Books Worldwide

Motor Acquires Chek-Chart From IDG Books Worldwide

Motor Information Systems and IDG Books Worldwide announced that Motor has acquired the Chek-Chart brand and business from IDG Books Worldwide. ... Continue reading

New IRC Study Shows Safety Overwhelming Concern of Auto Consumers

New IRC Study Shows Safety Overwhelming Concern of Auto Consumers

In the latest public attitude survey conducted by the Insurance Research Council (IRC), nearly eight in ten respondents who purchased or leased autos in the past three years rated vehicle safety as important to their purchase decisions. ... Continue reading

NHRA: Summit Racing Named NHRA E.T. Series Sponsor

NHRA: Summit Racing Named NHRA E.T. Series Sponsor

NHRA: Summit Racing Named NHRA E.T. Series Sponsor ... Continue reading

Praxair Completes Purchase of Tafa Group

Praxair Completes Purchase of Tafa Group

Praxair, Inc. announced that Praxair's wholly-owned subsidiary, Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., has completed its acquisition of the TAFA Group, formerly a unit of Eutectic+Castolin. ... Continue reading

Progressive Says It Looks at Actual Accident Experience in Rating Crash Data

Progressive Says It Looks at Actual Accident Experience in Rating Crash Data

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just released its latest crash tests for large family and large luxury cars. What do these results mean for your auto insurance rates? ... Continue reading

Reynolds and Reynolds Recognized for Superior Customer Service

Reynolds and Reynolds Recognized for Superior Customer Service

The Reynolds and Reynolds Company's ability to provide world class customer service while fielding more than 100,000 service calls a month has been recognized with a prestigious STAR Award from the Software Support Professionals Association. ... Continue reading

SCCA: Gentilozzi named to AARWBA All-America Team; Simo earns 'second-team' honors

SCCA: Gentilozzi named to AARWBA All-America Team; Simo earns 'second-team' honors

SCCA: Gentilozzi named to AARWBA All-America Team; Simo earns 'second-team' honors ... Continue reading

Shopping Malls are Filling Up; Don't Become a Theft or Crash Victim

Shopping Malls are Filling Up; Don't Become a Theft or Crash Victim

With Christmas just around the corner, shopping centers and mall parking lots are filling up with gift-seekers. And holiday gift-buying panic is setting in. "The closer we get to the holidays, the tougher it is for people to be patient. ... Continue reading

Spartan Motors Gains New RV Customer

Spartan Motors Gains New RV Customer

Spartan Motors, Inc. announced it has been named exclusive chassis supplier to recreational vehicle manufacturer Travel Supreme, Inc., which introduced its first line of Class A motorhomes at the RVIA show in Louisville. ... Continue reading

Tire Kingdom Launches DSS Point-of-Sale System in 165 Stores

Tire Kingdom Launches DSS Point-of-Sale System in 165 Stores

Dynamic Systems Solutions, Inc. (DSS), a leading provider of enterprise business applications solutions, announced that Tire Kingdom has successfully integrated the DSS point-of-sale system in 165 stores throughout the southeast. ... Continue reading

Trinity Industries' Board of Directors Elects New Member

Trinity Industries' Board of Directors Elects New Member

The board of directors of Trinity Industries Inc. announced the election of Ronald J. Gafford, president of Austin Industries Inc., as its newest member of the board. Gafford's election increases the total number of directors to ten. ... Continue reading

Turbodyne's Board Appoints New Disclosure Committee

Turbodyne's Board Appoints New Disclosure Committee

Turbodyne Technologies Inc.'s Board of Directors, chaired by Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Hofbauer, announced that Turbodyne has retained a new Disclosure Committee, consisting of three members, replacing the current committee in its entirety. ... Continue reading

Unique Mobility Achieves ISO 9002 Quality Management Registration

Unique Mobility Achieves ISO 9002 Quality Management Registration

Unique Mobility, Inc. announced that the quality management system for its motor manufacturing subsidiary, Unique Power Products, Inc., has been certified compliant with the international quality standard ISO 9002. ... Continue reading

Worldwide PetroMoly Reports a 250% Increase in Net Sales

Worldwide PetroMoly Reports a 250% Increase in Net Sales

Worldwide PetroMoly Inc. announced that net sales for the first fiscal quarter of 2000 were up over 250 percent compared to the same quarter of 1999, at $ 188,135 versus $ 53,136 respectively. ... Continue reading

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