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Advancel Licenses Java Chip Technology to Infinite Technology

Advancel Licenses Java Chip Technology to Infinite Technology

NCT Group, Inc. wholly-owned subsidiary Advancel Logic Corporation announced a license agreement with Infinite Technology Corporation. ... Continue reading

Automotive Congress to Be Held in Washington, D.C. May 22-23

Automotive Congress to Be Held in Washington, D.C. May 22-23

Automobile dealers from across the country will descend on Washington, D.C., May 22-23 for the 23rd annual Automotive Congress, the largest grassroots lobbying event in the automotive industry. ... Continue reading

AutoNation Names James D. Evans Jr. Senior VP, Industry Relations

AutoNation Names James D. Evans Jr. Senior VP, Industry Relations

AutoNation, Inc. announced the appointment of James D. Evans Jr., 39, as Senior Vice President, Industry Relations, reporting to Michael E. Maroone, President and Chief Operating Officer of AutoNation. ... Continue reading

Bel Authorizes Repurchase of Its Outstanding Common Shares

Bel Authorizes Repurchase of Its Outstanding Common Shares

Bel Fuse Inc. announced that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 10 percent of the company's outstanding common shares. ... Continue reading

CART: Construction begins for Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit

CART: Construction begins for Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit

CONSTRUCTION BEGINS FOR TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE GRAND PRIX OF DETROIT ... Continue reading

Collins & Aikman Joins Automation Alley

Collins & Aikman Joins Automation Alley

Collins & Aikman Corporation announced it has joined Oakland County's Automation Alley, a consortium of over 150 technology- focused companies dedicated to strengthening the economic base of Oakland County and its immediate area. ... Continue reading

DaimlerChrysler Test Simulates Lifetime of Wear and Tear

DaimlerChrysler Test Simulates Lifetime of Wear and Tear

DaimlerChrysler engineers can put a test vehicle through a lifetime of wear and tear in just 70 hours, using a special body test rig at the company's passenger car plant in nearby Sindelfingen. ... Continue reading

Eaton Announces Charitable Contributions of Nearly $4.7 Million

Eaton Announces Charitable Contributions of Nearly $4.7 Million

Eaton Corporation reported that it granted nearly $4.7 million in philanthropic contributions in 1999, primarily in the U.S. and North America. ... Continue reading

Edelbrock Executes Exclusive Agreement

Edelbrock Executes Exclusive Agreement

Edelbrock announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement for a minimum five year period with Ultra Wheel Company to give Ultra Wheel the exclusive rights to manufacture and sell a performance line of aftermarket wheels. ... Continue reading

FerrousExchange and Gibraltar Steel Enter Into Strategic Alliance

FerrousExchange and Gibraltar Steel Enter Into Strategic Alliance

FerrousExchange Inc announced that it had entered into a strategic alliance with Gibraltar Steel Corporation , a leader in the intermediate steel processingindustry. ... Continue reading

Fidelity Holdings Plans to Buy Back Up to 1M of its Outstanding Shares

Fidelity Holdings Plans to Buy Back Up to 1M of its Outstanding Shares

Fidelity Holdings, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 1,000,000 shares of the Company's outstanding common stock. ... Continue reading

Flexpoint to Exhibit at the Motion Control and Sensors Expo

Flexpoint to Exhibit at the Motion Control and Sensors Expo

Flexpoint Sensor Systems Inc. announced that it will be Exhibiting at the Motion Control and Sensors Expo in Anaheim, Calif. May 9-11, 2000. ... Continue reading

Ford Partners With Mail.com

Ford Partners With Mail.com

Mail.com, Inc. announced Ford Motor Company has chosen to implement MailZone, Mail.com's e-mail firewall service, to protect the auto maker's more than 170,000 worldwide corporate e-mailboxes. ... Continue reading

International Rectifier Introduces Power Management Devices

International Rectifier Introduces Power Management Devices

International Rectifier introduced four new 12- and 20-volt P- channel HEXFET(R) power MOSFETs, which set new battery management and power conversion efficiency standards in the TSSOP-8 package. ... Continue reading

Korea ranks as #1 in Car Accident Fatalities

Korea ranks as #1 in Car Accident Fatalities

Korea ranks as #1 in Car Accident Fatalities ... Continue reading

LDM Technologies Announces Second Quarter Earnings

LDM Technologies Announces Second Quarter Earnings

LDM Technologies, Inc. reports net sales for its second quarter ended March 26, 2000 (second quarter 2000) were $137.7 million, an increase of $4.0 million, or 3.0%, from the second quarter of FY 1999. ... Continue reading

Lear Corporation Appoints Robert E. Rossiter Chief Executive Officer

Lear Corporation Appoints Robert E. Rossiter Chief Executive Officer

The Lear Corporation Board of Directors has elected Robert E. Rossiter as Lear's Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2000. ... Continue reading

Mace Security Announces Financial Results For Q1 2000

Mace Security Announces Financial Results For Q1 2000

Mace Security International, Inc., a leading provider of car care services, announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2000. ... Continue reading

Mid-Ohio announces fan appreciation weekend for U.S. Road Racing Classic

Mid-Ohio announces fan appreciation weekend for U.S. Road Racing Classic

MID-OHIO ANNOUNCES FAN APPRECIATION WEEKEND FOR U.S. ROAD RACING CLASSIC ... Continue reading

Modine Recognized by Mack Trucks, Inc. for Delivery Performance

Modine Recognized by Mack Trucks, Inc. for Delivery Performance

Modine Manufacturing Company's plant here has been recognized by Mack Trucks for delivery performance. Of the hundreds of companies that are suppliers to Mack, only about 25 to date have been certified for delivery performance. ... Continue reading

Mold-Masters Limited Engages with SDRC in Partnership

Mold-Masters Limited Engages with SDRC in Partnership

SDRC , a global supplier of e-business collaboration solutions for the product lifecycle, announced that Mold-Masters Limited, of Georgetown, Ontario, Canada has engaged in a Partnership for Competitive Excellence with SDRC. ... Continue reading

NASA charts course to sail to the stars on largest spacecraft ever built

NASA charts course to sail to the stars on largest spacecraft ever built

NASA charts course to sail to the stars on largest spacecraft ever built ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Park Ready To Race In His Biggest Busch Race Of The Year

NASCAR BGN: Park Ready To Race In His Biggest Busch Race Of The Year

Park Ready To Race In His Biggest Busch Race Of The Year ... Continue reading

PipePak 7.02 Offers Ease-of-use and Modeling Flexibility

PipePak 7.02 Offers Ease-of-use and Modeling Flexibility

Algor, Inc. introduced the all-new PipePak 7.02, which provides unprecedented ease-of-use and the flexibility for piping system designers to access geometry defined in nearly all other piping design packages. ... Continue reading

Prolong International Corp. Reports First-Quarter 2000 Results

Prolong International Corp. Reports First-Quarter 2000 Results

Prolong International Corp. reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2000. ... Continue reading

Service Technicians Society Announces Alliance To Promote Technician Recruitment

Service Technicians Society Announces Alliance To Promote Technician Recruitment

SERVICE TECHNICIANS SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE TO PROMOTE TECHNICIAN RECRUITMENT ... Continue reading

Simula Inc. Reports First-Quarter 2000 Financial Results

Simula Inc. Reports First-Quarter 2000 Financial Results

Simula Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2000. ... Continue reading

S&P Assigns Prelm 'AAA' to Hitachi Credit Auto Loan Trust

S&P Assigns Prelm 'AAA' to Hitachi Credit Auto Loan Trust

Standard & Poor's assigned its preliminary triple-'A' ratings to Hitachi Credit Auto Loan Trust Series 3 Certificates. The terms of each class of the certificates are as follows: ... Continue reading

Spatial and Freightliner Announce Technology Partnership

Spatial and Freightliner Announce Technology Partnership

Spatial Inc. and Freightliner LLC announced an exclusive partnership agreement to commercialize Freightliner's proprietary Web-based software for management and routing of design data through corporate intranets. ... Continue reading

Statoil Chooses Hypercom Card Payment Terminals for its Forecourts

Statoil Chooses Hypercom Card Payment Terminals for its Forecourts

Statoil Detaljhandel Skandinavia, a major Scandinavian oil company, will deploy Hypercom Financial Terminals AB (HFT) card payment terminals to support bank and fuel card transaction processing at its petroleum stations throughout Sweden. ... Continue reading

The Coast Distribution System, Inc. Reports Q1 Results

The Coast Distribution System, Inc. Reports Q1 Results

The Coast Distribution System, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2000. ... Continue reading

@Track Communications Announces First Quarter 2000 Financial Results

@Track Communications Announces First Quarter 2000 Financial Results

@Track Communications, Inc. reported that total revenues for the first quarter ended March 31, 2000, were $14.1 million, down 17.4 percent from $17.1 million for the 1999 first quarter. ... Continue reading

Tracks: Part Non Conformance leads to disqualification of top finishers at Irwidale

Tracks: Part Non Conformance leads to disqualification of top finishers at Irwidale

RECLASSIFICATION OF RESULTS FOR FOOD 4 LESS SUPER LATE MODEL EVENT - MAY 6, 2000 ... Continue reading

Unique Mobility Reports Q4 Profit on Record Revenue

Unique Mobility Reports Q4 Profit on Record Revenue

Unique Mobility, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of alternative energy technology products, announced its operating results for the quarter and year ended March 31, 2000. ... Continue reading

U.S. Automotive Manufacturing Announces Potential Investment

U.S. Automotive Manufacturing Announces Potential Investment

Automotive Manufacturing reported that the previously announced letter of intent with Satisfied Brake Products has been terminated and that the Company had entered into a letter of understanding with another strategic investor, FDP Brakes, Inc. ... Continue reading

Wynn's International Declares Dividend

Wynn's International Declares Dividend

Wynn's International, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of seven cents ($0.07) per share of common stock, payable June 30, 2000 to stockholders of record on June 16, 2000. ... Continue reading

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