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Thursday, December 14, 2000

1-800-AUTOTOW Closes and Proceeds to Liquidate Certain Subsidiaries

1-800-AUTOTOW Closes and Proceeds to Liquidate Certain Subsidiaries

Leonard D. Levin, as acting President and CEO of 1-800-AUTOTOW, Inc. a consolidator of vehicle towing companies, announced that the Company closed three subsidiary operations on Dec. 6, 2000, that have consistently been losing money. ... Continue reading

Advanced Materials is Notified That Stock Is Delisted From Nasdaq

Advanced Materials is Notified That Stock Is Delisted From Nasdaq

Advanced Materials Group announced that it has been notified by the Nasdaq Qualifications Hearing Panel of its decision to delist the Company's common stock from the Nasdaq SmallCap Market effective with the open of business on Dec. 14, 2000. ... Continue reading

ArvinMeritor Comments on First Quarter and Fiscal 2001 Outlook

ArvinMeritor Comments on First Quarter and Fiscal 2001 Outlook

ArvinMeritor, Inc. updated earnings guidance reflecting current market conditions. The company indicated that earnings per share will be between $0.30 and $0.35 in the first fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31, 2000. ... Continue reading

ASA: St. Amant Honored As 2000 ASA Champion

ASA: St. Amant Honored As 2000 ASA Champion

St. Amant Honored As 2000 ASA Champion ... Continue reading

BEI Duncan Electronics Introduces Rotary Sensor

BEI Duncan Electronics Introduces Rotary Sensor

BEI Duncan Electronics has introduced a new, dual output, low- profile rotary sensor that can be easily integrated into space- conscious applications requiring installation simplicity, long life and repeatability. ... Continue reading

Capital Automotive: the End of Oldsmobile Will Have No Negative Impact on Its Business

Capital Automotive: the End of Oldsmobile Will Have No Negative Impact on Its Business

Capital Automotive announced that its exposure to Oldsmobile franchises is not expected to have any negative impact, whatsoever, on its on-going business or financial results. ... Continue reading

Claritas Signs Additional Sales Contract With ANC Rental Corp.

Claritas Signs Additional Sales Contract With ANC Rental Corp.

Claritas Inc. announced it has signed an additional sales contract with ANC Rental Corp. to provide a customer segmentation system for its subsidiary, National Car Rental, adapted from the long-standing, Claritas MicroVision system. ... Continue reading

CTS Automotive Products Business Awarded ISO-9001/QS-9000 Renewal

CTS Automotive Products Business Awarded ISO-9001/QS-9000 Renewal

CTS Corporation's , Automotive Products business, located in Elkhart, Indiana, recently received QS-9000 Renewal Certification from ABS Quality Evaluations, Inc., an independent accredited third-party assessor. ... Continue reading

Determine The Condition Of Your Vehicle's Engine And Transmission

Determine The Condition Of Your Vehicle's Engine And Transmission

Just like your blood, a vehicle's oils and fluids are in intimate contact with all of its parts. By testing that oil or fluids, one can determine the changes brought about by the vehicles operation, says Mike Bahor, President of OilMedic. ... Continue reading

Flexsteel Announces Quarterly Dividend

Flexsteel Announces Quarterly Dividend

Flexsteel Industries, Inc. announces its second quarter dividend of $ .13 per share payable January 3, 2001 to shareholders on record as of December 21, 2000. ... Continue reading

Formula One: SAP U.S. Grand Prix Notebook

Formula One: SAP U.S. Grand Prix Notebook

Formula One: SAP U.S. Grand Prix Notebook ... Continue reading

Goodbye to Dad's Olds

Goodbye to Dad's Olds

Cars are America and America is cars. The car is family. The car is refuge. It is comfort. It is status. And it is hardly ever just a way to get to A from B. ... Continue reading

Group 1 Acquires Dealerships and Updates 2001 Outlook

Group 1 Acquires Dealerships and Updates 2001 Outlook

Group 1 Automotive, Inc. announced that it has completed two acquisitions in the Atlanta market, one acquisition in the Houston market and one acquisition in the Amarillo, Texas, market. ... Continue reading

Haldex: Changed Outlook for the Full Year 2000

Haldex: Changed Outlook for the Full Year 2000

The Group's result for October-November has been affected by increased costs related to the development and introduction of new products in the Brake Systems division, as well as by lower business volumes for the Group in North America. ... Continue reading

Increased Holiday Travel Expected by AAA

Increased Holiday Travel Expected by AAA

This Christmas/New Year's holiday, 60.6 million Americans are expected to travel 100 miles or more from home, a 4 percent increase over last year's 58.3 million people, according to AAA. ... Continue reading

MISC: Dodge Announces Major Motorsports Diversity Program

MISC: Dodge Announces Major Motorsports Diversity Program

MISC: Dodge Announces Major Motorsports Diversity Program ... Continue reading

Moldflow Completes Public Offering of Stock

Moldflow Completes Public Offering of Stock

Moldflow Corporation announced the completion of the public offering of 2,305,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $19 per share. ... Continue reading

News from Kenworth: Kentucky Trucker Wins Sweepstakes

News from Kenworth: Kentucky Trucker Wins Sweepstakes

News from Kenworth: Kentucky Trucker Wins "18 Wheels of Justice" Sweepstakes ... Continue reading

Recommendations On Increasing Seat Belt Use Among African Americans

Recommendations On Increasing Seat Belt Use Among African Americans

A blue ribbon panel delivered its report containing 10 recommendations for increasing seat belt use among African Americans to U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater. ... Continue reading

Side Impact Crash Test of The BMW X5 By The Insurance Institute

Side Impact Crash Test of The BMW X5 By The Insurance Institute

The BMW X5, the world's first light truck equipped with a head protection system, demonstrated the importance of such systems in a recent side-impact crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. ... Continue reading

Stanadyne Introduces 2-Micron Filter

Stanadyne Introduces 2-Micron Filter

Stanadyne Automotive has begun production of a new 2-micron diesel fuel filter/water separator element that was developed to meet growing customer demand for ever cleaner diesel fuel. ... Continue reading

Ultramar Diamond Shamrock to Update Q4 2000 and 2001 Outlook

Ultramar Diamond Shamrock to Update Q4 2000 and 2001 Outlook

Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp. announced that it will host a conference call on Dec. 14, 2000 at 3:00 pm CST to discuss fourth quarter earnings expectations and give further guidance for 2001. ... Continue reading

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