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Friday, February 18, 2000

AEolus Technology to Present Clarinval S-22 at Scaled Technology Works

AEolus Technology to Present Clarinval S-22 at Scaled Technology Works

AEolus Technology of Fort Collins, Colorado and Scaled Technology Works (STW) of Montrose, Colorado announce the presentation of the Clarinval S-22. ... Continue reading

AMA: AMA/Prostar announces a new official publication

AMA: AMA/Prostar announces a new official publication

AMA: AMA/Prostar announces a new official publication ... Continue reading

AMA: Pro Racing Bonus awards over $11 Million

AMA: Pro Racing Bonus awards over $11 Million

AMA: Pro Racing Bonus awards over $11 Million ... Continue reading

AMA: Steve Morehead joins staff of AMA Progressive Insurance US Flat Track Championships

AMA: Steve Morehead joins staff of AMA Progressive Insurance US Flat Track Championships

AMA: Steve Morehead joins staff of AMA Progressive Insurance US Flat Track Championships ... Continue reading

Autoco.com Announces Strategic Alliance With Repo Depo(R)

Autoco.com Announces Strategic Alliance With Repo Depo(R)

Autoco.com announced a strategic alliance between Repo Depo(R), and Autoco.com's wholly owned subsidiary, TheMotorPages.com, to provide consumers and dealers with a comprehensive database of repossessed vehicles across Canada. ... Continue reading

AutoInfo Announces Claims Bar Date

AutoInfo Announces Claims Bar Date

AutoInfo, Inc. announced that a hearing to consider compliance with the disclosure requirements, any objections to the disclosure statement, and any other matter that may properly come before the Bankruptcy Court, will be held in New York. ... Continue reading

Autolink.Com(SM) Announces Management Team

Autolink.Com(SM) Announces Management Team

Autolink.com, the nation's first independent, one-stop business- to-business Web site for auto dealers and aftermarket retailers, has announced its management team. ... Continue reading

Automotive Electronics: The `Enabler' of Future Vehicle Options

Automotive Electronics: The `Enabler' of Future Vehicle Options

In "A Vision of the Future of Automotive Electronics," Daniel K. Ward and Harold L. Fields of Delphi Delco Electronics Systems, address these issues in a paper presented at SAE 2000 World Congress. ... Continue reading

BEI Technologies Marks Shipment Of One Millionth Gyro Chip Yaw Rate Sensor

BEI Technologies Marks Shipment Of One Millionth Gyro Chip Yaw Rate Sensor

BEI Technologies, Inc. has recorded the shipment of the one- millionth GyroChip(R) yaw rate sensor from its Systron Donner Inertial Division here. ... Continue reading

Belgium's SmartMove Launches U.S. Division To Serve US Auto Manufacturers

Belgium's SmartMove Launches U.S. Division To Serve US Auto Manufacturers

SmartMove N.V., one of Europe's leading developers of intelligent vehicle communications software and hardware architecture, announced the formation of its U.S. division which will be located in Cambridge (Boston), Massachusetts. ... Continue reading

Caliber Collision Centers Enters San Bernardino Market

Caliber Collision Centers Enters San Bernardino Market

Irvine-based Caliber Collision Centers, now operating 32 high- quality collision repair facilities in California and Texas, Thursday announced the completed acquisition of Bob's Custom Paint & Body in San Bernardino. ... Continue reading

CART: Hollywood, Mo Nunn Racing Announce Multi-Year Sponsorship Agreement

CART: Hollywood, Mo Nunn Racing Announce Multi-Year Sponsorship Agreement

Hollywood, Mo Nunn Racing Announce Multi-Year Sponsorship Agreement ... Continue reading

CarTrackers.com Announces New Look

CarTrackers.com Announces New Look

CarTrackers.com, an automotive online resource, launched the revamp of their Web site plus two new services, The Personal Auto Consultant and PartTrackers. ... Continue reading

CTS Corporation Opens Korean Branch Sales Office

CTS Corporation Opens Korean Branch Sales Office

CTS Corporation has opened a branch sales office in Seoul, Korea to service CTS' customers, predominantly focusing on its complete product line of wireless components,. ... Continue reading

DaimlerChrysler Reports Assembly Plant Schedule for Week of Feb 21, 2000

DaimlerChrysler Reports Assembly Plant Schedule for Week of Feb 21, 2000

DaimlerChrysler Corporation reports all nine U.S. assembly plants and all three Canadian assembly plants will operate the week of February 21, 2000. ... Continue reading

Electrosource Batteries Selected By PEI Electronics

Electrosource Batteries Selected By PEI Electronics

Electrosource Inc. announced today it has received an order from PEI Electronics Inc. (PEI) of Huntsville, Ala., for its 12Volt 85 Ah Horizon(R) Batteries. ... Continue reading

ESD The Engineering Society Presents e-Auto 2000

ESD The Engineering Society Presents e-Auto 2000

The Engineering Society presents e-Auto 2000 - Manufacturing in the e-Auto World. The event will be held on March 20-21, 2000 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Romulus, Michigan. ... Continue reading

Ford's Focus247.com Web Site to Launch Customizable Calendar

Ford's Focus247.com Web Site to Launch Customizable Calendar

Ford Motor Company has designed a non-traditional web site (http://www.focus247.com ) and CD-ROM for the all new Ford Focus that goes far beyond vehicle information and reflects the fast-paced '24/7' lifestyle of its target customers. ... Continue reading

Gleason and Torque Accept Purchase and Payment of Shares of Gleason

Gleason and Torque Accept Purchase and Payment of Shares of Gleason

Torque Acquisition Co. and Gleason Corporation announced that they have accepted for purchase and payment pursuant to their joint tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock together with the associated preferred share. ... Continue reading

Harley-Davidson Announces Two-for-One Stock Split and Quarterly Dividend

Harley-Davidson Announces Two-for-One Stock Split and Quarterly Dividend

Harley-Davidson, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors approved a two-for-one split of its common stock effective for shareholders of record on March 22, 2000 and payable on April 7, 2000. ... Continue reading

Hella North America Names John C. Koenig VP And Chief Financial Officer

Hella North America Names John C. Koenig VP And Chief Financial Officer

John C. Koenig has been named vice president and chief financial officer of Hella North America by the company's board of directors. ... Continue reading

Infineon Technologies Introduces the AUDO TC1775

Infineon Technologies Introduces the AUDO TC1775

Infineon Technologies North America Corp., announced the 32-bit microcontroller TC1775, the first member of Infineon's innovative AUDO microcontroller family that is designed for future automotive embedded control systems. ... Continue reading

Infiniti Announces 'Infiniti I30 SmartMoney Challenge' Winner    

Infiniti Announces 'Infiniti I30 SmartMoney Challenge' Winner    

Infiniti, the luxury division of Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) in conjunction with SmartMoney.com announced the winner of the co-sponsored online fantasy investment competition the "Infiniti I30 SmartMoney Challenge." ... Continue reading

IRL: Experience, speed bring Salazar, Foyt together in 2000

IRL: Experience, speed bring Salazar, Foyt together in 2000

IRL: Experience, speed bring Salazar, Foyt together in 2000 ... Continue reading

IRL: 'Test in the West' Pre-test quotes

IRL: 'Test in the West' Pre-test quotes

IRL: 'Test in the West' Pre-test quotes ... Continue reading

Johnson Matthey to Build New Autocatalyst Manufacturing Facility in China

Johnson Matthey to Build New Autocatalyst Manufacturing Facility in China

Johnson Matthey is to establish a new autocatalyst manufacturing facility in China to serve its customers in this rapidly growing market for vehicle emission control catalysts. ... Continue reading

Mace Security International Receives Financing From Bank One, Texas N.A.

Mace Security International Receives Financing From Bank One, Texas N.A.

Mace Security International, Inc. announced that it has closed on a loan and received a financing commitment for a second loan from Bank One, Texas N.A. ... Continue reading

M.A. Hanna Selects J.B. Hunt to Provide Fleet Management

M.A. Hanna Selects J.B. Hunt to Provide Fleet Management

J.B. Hunt Dedicated Contract Services, an operating unit of J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., has been awarded a contract to manage and operate private fleet operations at eleven separate North American locations for M.A. Hanna Company. ... Continue reading

Mannesmann Confirms the IPO of Engineering & Automotive

Mannesmann Confirms the IPO of Engineering & Automotive

The Supervisory Board of Mannesmann confirms the accelerated IPO of Engineering & Automotive. This is in line with the stated intention of Vodafone AirTouch. ... Continue reading

Marketing Agreement Signed By ATC

Marketing Agreement Signed By ATC

Richard A. Steinke, C.E.O. of American Tire Corporation announced the signing of a marketing agreement with Marketing Support, Inc. which is based out of San Clemente, California. ... Continue reading

Metso Signs Agreement to Sell Its Hydraulic Motors Manufacturing

Metso Signs Agreement to Sell Its Hydraulic Motors Manufacturing

Metso Corporation has signed an agreement to sell the entire share stock of Valmet Hydraulics Oy, a manufacturer of hydraulic motors, to Denison International plc. ... Continue reading

Michigan Rivet Announces Results for First Quarter Ended January 31, 2000

Michigan Rivet Announces Results for First Quarter Ended January 31, 2000

Michigan Rivet Corporation announced its results of operations for the first quarter ended January 31,2000. ... Continue reading

Modine Files Complaint Against Delphi for Patent Infringement

Modine Files Complaint Against Delphi for Patent Infringement

Modine Manufacturing Company has filed a federal complaint against Delphi Automotive Systems Corporation in the United States District Court in Milwaukee for infringing one of Modine's patents on PF(R) air-conditioning condensers. ... Continue reading

MotorcycleWorld.com and RiderPoint.com Announce E-Commerce and Affiliation

MotorcycleWorld.com and RiderPoint.com Announce E-Commerce and Affiliation

MotorcycleWorld.com, a business unit of Publishing Services division of Bell & Howell Company and RiderPoint, Inc., an affiliate of eLEC Communications Corp., announced an agreement for an online commerce affiliation. ... Continue reading

MSX International Wins Competitive Ford 'Best Practices Recognition' Award

MSX International Wins Competitive Ford 'Best Practices Recognition' Award

MSX International's Web & IT Services and Enterprise Information Management Services teams received a "Best Practices Recognition" award from Ford Motor Company's Product Development Group. ... Continue reading

NASCAR GDS: NAPA Team's Speedweek dashed by early crash

NASCAR GDS: NAPA Team's Speedweek dashed by early crash

NASCAR GDS: NAPA Team's Speedweek dashed by early crash ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Daytona 250 Truck Race Results

NASCAR Trucks: Daytona 250 Truck Race Results

NASCAR Trucks: Daytona 250 Truck Race Results ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Daytona 500 Starting Lineup

NASCAR WCUP: Daytona 500 Starting Lineup

NASCAR WCUP: Daytona 500 Starting Lineup ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Robby Gordon adds more support to Daytona effort

NASCAR WCUP: Robby Gordon adds more support to Daytona effort

NASCAR WCUP: Robby Gordon adds more support to Daytona effort ... Continue reading

NetSol to Develop Lease Management Software for Mercedes Benz Asia

NetSol to Develop Lease Management Software for Mercedes Benz Asia

NetSol International Inc. announced that Mercedes-Benz Finance Asia Pacific Region in Singapore has awarded a development project to NetSol which includes the development and implementation of a contract management system (CMS). ... Continue reading

Newgen to Provide Service for Pilot of 20 Ford Dealerships

Newgen to Provide Service for Pilot of 20 Ford Dealerships

Newgen Results Corp. announced that Newgen Management Services (NMS), a subsidiary of Newgen Results Corp., has reached an agreement to pilot the Ultimate Service, for Ford dealerships. ... Continue reading

NHRA: More victories, another championship goals for Johnson in 2000

NHRA: More victories, another championship goals for Johnson in 2000

NHRA: More victories, another championship goals for Johnson in 2000 ... Continue reading

NHRA: Scelzi determined to regain Winston Top Fuel crown

NHRA: Scelzi determined to regain Winston Top Fuel crown

NHRA: Scelzi determined to regain Winston Top Fuel crown ... Continue reading

NHRA: Schumacher seeking victory at Checker Schuck's Kragen Nationals

NHRA: Schumacher seeking victory at Checker Schuck's Kragen Nationals

NHRA: Schumacher seeking victory at Checker Schuck's Kragen Nationals ... Continue reading

parts.com More Than Doubles Employee Base

parts.com More Than Doubles Employee Base

parts.com, Inc. announced it has more than doubled its employee base, from 20 as of November, 1999, to nearly 50 as of today, as a direct result of the rapid expansion of the parts.com network. ... Continue reading

PennDOT's Driver and Vehicle Services Bus Rolls Into Pittsburgh

PennDOT's Driver and Vehicle Services Bus Rolls Into Pittsburgh

Car buffs and new car buyers crowding the Pittsburgh Auto Show to catch a glimpse of the latest trends in automobiles can also take advantage of one of PennDOT's latest innovations in providing on-the-spot driver and vehicle services. ... Continue reading

Puroflow Inc. to Retire Shares and Reduce Dilution

Puroflow Inc. to Retire Shares and Reduce Dilution

Puroflow Inc. announced a plan to retire approximately 1 million shares of its common stock. ... Continue reading

Saab Unveils New, Unique Engine Concept at Geneva Motor Show

Saab Unveils New, Unique Engine Concept at Geneva Motor Show

Saab has developed an entirely new engine concept - Saab Variable Compression (SVC) - that radically cuts fuel consumption without impairing engine performance. ... Continue reading

Saatchi and Saatchi, Oasis Agencies Team Up for Toyota Prius Ad Campaign

Saatchi and Saatchi, Oasis Agencies Team Up for Toyota Prius Ad Campaign

Toyota Motor Sales, (TMS) USA announced that the advertising campaign for the revolutionary Prius hybrid gas/electric vehicle has been awarded to two agencies, Saatchi and Saatchi LA and Oasis Advertising of New York. ... Continue reading

Sames Reports 94% Increase in Fourth Quarter Operating Income

Sames Reports 94% Increase in Fourth Quarter Operating Income

Sames Corporation announced its results for the fourth quarter and the year ended November 30, 1999. ... Continue reading

SANLUIS S.A. de C.V. Results for 1999 and the 4th Quarter 1999

SANLUIS S.A. de C.V. Results for 1999 and the 4th Quarter 1999

SANLUIS Corporacion, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican industrial group that manufactures auto parts and mines silver and gold, reported results for year ended December 31,1999. ... Continue reading

Sheldahl, Inc. Announces Preliminary Discussions With Molex Incorporated

Sheldahl, Inc. Announces Preliminary Discussions With Molex Incorporated

Sheldahl, Inc. announced that it is currently engaged in discussions with Molex Incorporated regarding a potential acquisition by Molex. ... Continue reading

S&P Cuts Long-Trm Rtgs on Dana Corp. & Unit; CP Affmd

S&P Cuts Long-Trm Rtgs on Dana Corp. & Unit; CP Affmd

Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term corporate credit rating and its senior unsecured debt rating on Dana Corp. (Dana) to triple-'B'-plus from single-'A'-minus. ... Continue reading

S&P Lwrs AutoZone Lng-Term Rtgs, Off Watch; Outlk Neg

S&P Lwrs AutoZone Lng-Term Rtgs, Off Watch; Outlk Neg

Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term corporate credit, senior unsecured debt, and bank loan ratings on AutoZone Inc. to triple-'B'-plus from single-'A'-minus. ... Continue reading

There Is Finally a Place to Find Information About Quality Auto Repair

There Is Finally a Place to Find Information About Quality Auto Repair

GreatMechanics.com, (http://www.GreatMechanics.com), is a Web site that provides consumers information on auto repair shops based on actual customer ratings. The consumer has the ability to rate their experiences with a given shop. ... Continue reading

Winnebago Industries' Motor Homes Receive Top Sales Award Honors

Winnebago Industries' Motor Homes Receive Top Sales Award Honors

Statistical Surveys, Inc., a retail reporting firm in Grand Rapids, Mich., announced that Winnebago Industries, Inc. had received two awards for top retail sales volume achievement for its motor homes. ... Continue reading

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