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Wednesday, June 23, 1999

AMA: Mazda Trucks Motocross Nationals, Budds Creek Motocross Park

AMA: Mazda Trucks Motocross Nationals, Budds Creek Motocross Park

1999 AMA MAZDA TRUCKS MOTOCROSS NATIONALS, BUDDS CREEK MOTOCROSS PARK, BUDDS CREEK, MARYLAND - JUNE 20, 1999 ... Continue reading

AMSTED Extends $35 Cash Tender Offer for Varlen

AMSTED Extends $35 Cash Tender Offer for Varlen

AMSTED Industries Incorporated announced that it has extended until Tuesday, July 6, 1999, at 12:00 midnight New York City time the expiration date of its all-cash tender offer to purchase all the outstanding shares of Varlen Corporation. ... Continue reading

ARCA Trucks: Aaron Hulings Answers Anderson

ARCA Trucks: Aaron Hulings Answers Anderson

ARCA Trucks: Aaron Hulings Answers Anderson ... Continue reading

Auxer Group Announces Strong Sales in Puerto Rico

Auxer Group Announces Strong Sales in Puerto Rico

The Auxer Group, Inc. announced that it's subsidiary, Harvey Westbury has received strong reports from distributors in Puerto Rico. ... Continue reading

Bell Atlantic Presents Frequency Marketing, Inc. With Supplier Excellence Award

Bell Atlantic Presents Frequency Marketing, Inc. With Supplier Excellence Award

Frequency Marketing, Inc., of Milford, Ohio, has won the Bell Atlantic Supplier Excellence Award for outstanding customer service. FMI is a marketing services company that developed and manages Bell Atlantic's Business Link Reward Program. ... Continue reading

Bullhide Announces 250% Increase in Revenues for Fiscal Year

Bullhide Announces 250% Increase in Revenues for Fiscal Year

The Bullhide Liner Corporation announced that for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1999, its annual revenues increased to approximately $1,700,000, a 250% increase over the preceding year. ... Continue reading

California Consolidator of Auto Repair Centers Acquired By Blue Capital

California Consolidator of Auto Repair Centers Acquired By Blue Capital

Blue Capital Management, LLC, announced the closing of two separate transactions: M2 Automotive, Inc., a Santa Monica, California-based consolidator of collision repair centers, and Great Lakes Computer Source, Inc. ... Continue reading

CART: Casey Mears-Dorricott Cleveland Preview

CART: Casey Mears-Dorricott Cleveland Preview

Casey Mears-Dorricott Prep for Cleveland ... Continue reading

CASCAR Super Series - Weekend Preview

CASCAR Super Series - Weekend Preview

CASCAR Castrol Super Series - Weekend Preview ... Continue reading

Casco Products Acquires Schoeller & Co., German Automotive Products Supplier

Casco Products Acquires Schoeller & Co., German Automotive Products Supplier

Casco Products Corporation, a subsidiary of Sequa Corporation, has completed the purchase of Frankfurt, Germany-based Schoeller & Co. GmbH, a supplier of automotive cigarette lighters, power outlets and other automotive products. ... Continue reading

DaimlerChrysler Combines Its Worldwide Credit Facilities

DaimlerChrysler Combines Its Worldwide Credit Facilities

DaimlerChrysler is combining its worldwide Revolving Credit Facilities completing another step in the merger integration process -- this time in the area of Corporate Finance. ... Continue reading

Delphi Continues Environmental Leadership With Participation in Refrigerant Symposium

Delphi Continues Environmental Leadership With Participation in Refrigerant Symposium

Delphi Automotive Systems will be playing a key role in a four- day conference later this month that will, in part, examine the future of alternative refrigerants being considered for use in automotive air conditioning systems. ... Continue reading

Electric Bicycle Patrol Officer Training School July 13 in Los Angeles

Electric Bicycle Patrol Officer Training School July 13 in Los Angeles

First Electric Bicycle Patrol Training in Southern California Largest Ever Gathering of Electric Bicycle Patrol Officers, Over 100 Officers from two dozen agencies are expected to attend during the week. ... Continue reading

Electrosource Inc. Receives Battery Order

Electrosource Inc. Receives Battery Order

Electrosource Inc. announced it has received an order of approximately $2 million for its 12H85 Horizon batteries. ... Continue reading

IRL: 1999 Radisson 200 Pre Race Quotes

IRL: 1999 Radisson 200 Pre Race Quotes

IRL: 1999 Radisson 200 Pre Race Quotes ... Continue reading

Karl Johnson Elected CEO of Redem Corp.

Karl Johnson Elected CEO of Redem Corp.

Redem Corporation, a technology-based company that focuses on reducing exhaust emissions in the automotive, diesel and industrial markets, has elected Karl C. Johnson, Jr. as its Chief Executive Officer. ... Continue reading

McLaren Engines Experiences Increased Demand for Engineering Services

McLaren Engines Experiences Increased Demand for Engineering Services

McLaren Engines, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of McLaren Automotive Group, Inc.) has experienced, since the beginning of calendar year 1999, an increase in both contracts and billings. ... Continue reading

NASCAR: 10 Reasons Why Sears Point Is Different From Normal Winston Cup Weekend

NASCAR: 10 Reasons Why Sears Point Is Different From Normal Winston Cup Weekend

10 Reasons Why Sears Point Is Different From Normal Winston Cup W eekend ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Randy Lajoie Watkins Glen Preview

NASCAR BGN: Randy Lajoie Watkins Glen Preview

NASCAR BGN: Randy Lajoie Watkins Glen Preview ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Xpress Team Expresses Optimism; Sponsor Sought for Future Growth

NASCAR BGN: Xpress Team Expresses Optimism; Sponsor Sought for Future Growth

NASCAR BGN: Xpress Team Expresses Optimism; Sponsor Sought for Future Growth ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Michael Waltrip hoping for road course rebound

NASCAR WCUP: Michael Waltrip hoping for road course rebound

Michael Waltrip hoping for road course rebound ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Wallace and Schrader have a 'Flat' Pocono 500

NASCAR WCUP: Wallace and Schrader have a 'Flat' Pocono 500

NASCAR WCUP: Wallace and Schrader have a 'Flat' Pocono 500 ... Continue reading

Parlex Corporation Completes Facility Expansion

Parlex Corporation Completes Facility Expansion

Parlex Corporation announced that it has completed a 62,000 square foot addition to its Corporate Headquarters and Flexible Circuit Products Facility. ... Continue reading

Routing Analyzer Helps Determine the Most Effective Scheduling and Routing

Routing Analyzer Helps Determine the Most Effective Scheduling and Routing

Systems Modeling has added a new feature to its Arena(R) Call Center Edition (formerly Call$im(R)). ... Continue reading

SDRC Receives Phoenix 50 Award as Role Model Company

SDRC Receives Phoenix 50 Award as Role Model Company

SDRC has received a Phoenix 50 award, an honor presented to companies that readily and successfully adapt their business operations in order to maintain leadership in their industry. ... Continue reading

Secom General Expects to Report 8 to 12 Cent Operating Profit For Fiscal Q3

Secom General Expects to Report 8 to 12 Cent Operating Profit For Fiscal Q3

Secom General Corporation announced it expects to earn from eight to twelve cents per share from operations for its third quarter ending Jun. 30, 1999, compared to a net loss of $0.90 per share, in the same quarter last year. ... Continue reading

Sheldahl Announces Third Quarter, Nine-Month Results

Sheldahl Announces Third Quarter, Nine-Month Results

Sheldahl, Inc. announced sales of $32.6 million for its fiscal 1999 third quarter ended May 28, 1999, up from $31.9 million a year ago. ... Continue reading

Shiloh Industries to Acquire Assets of MTD Automotive

Shiloh Industries to Acquire Assets of MTD Automotive

Shiloh Industries, Inc., a leading supplier of parts, subassemblies and processed steel for the automotive, heavy truck and other industries has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the assets of MTD Automotive (MTDA) from MTDProductsInc. ... Continue reading

STOCKS: Ricky Bryant Produces Season's Best Qualifying Effort

STOCKS: Ricky Bryant Produces Season's Best Qualifying Effort

Ricky Bryant Produces Season's Best Qualifying Effort ... Continue reading

Systems Modeling Adds Seven New Resellers

Systems Modeling Adds Seven New Resellers

Systems Modeling Corporation is pleased to introduce seven new resellers to its family of Global Business Partners: ... Continue reading

Systems Modeling Opens European Operations in The Hague, Netherlands

Systems Modeling Opens European Operations in The Hague, Netherlands

Systems Modeling has opened a new Northern European Operations office in The Hague,Netherlands. ... Continue reading

Thyssen Inc., North America Announces Key Executive Appointments

Thyssen Inc., North America Announces Key Executive Appointments

Thyssen Inc., North America is pleased to announce the following new appointments: ... Continue reading

TI Group Automotive Systems Formed; Combines Bundy and Walbro

TI Group Automotive Systems Formed; Combines Bundy and Walbro

TI Group announced the formation of TI Group Automotive Systems upon completion of its acquisition of Walbro Corporation. ... Continue reading

TIRIS(TM) Anti-Theft Immobilizer System Lowers Auto Insurance Rates

TIRIS(TM) Anti-Theft Immobilizer System Lowers Auto Insurance Rates

In an auto-theft backlash, insurance companies in Canada are now offering rate discounts to owners of Ford automobiles and trucks equipped with Texas Instruments' TIRIS anti-theft immobilizer system. ... Continue reading

Tracks: Norris Grabs Point Lead in Bloomington Modifieds

Tracks: Norris Grabs Point Lead in Bloomington Modifieds

Tracks: Norris Grabs Point Lead in Bloomington Modifieds ... Continue reading

Trident Rowan Group Announces First Quarter 1999 Results

Trident Rowan Group Announces First Quarter 1999 Results

Trident Rowan Group, Inc. announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 1999. Net profit was Lit. 16.6 billion (US$ 9.3 million), compared with a net loss of Lit. 2.4 billion (US$ 1.4 million net loss) for the same period last year. ... Continue reading

Truck World

Truck World

1999 National Events Schedule ... Continue reading

Truck World

Truck World

1999 National Events Schedule ... Continue reading

Truck World

Truck World

1999 National Events Schedule ... Continue reading

Truck World

Truck World

1999 National Events Schedule ... Continue reading

Walter P. Chrysler Museum Seeks Volunteers

Walter P. Chrysler Museum Seeks Volunteers

The innovative Walter P. Chrysler Museum, scheduled to open October 5, 1999 is looking for volunteers to assist in its daily operation. ... Continue reading

Warrantech Announces Premium Increase to Major Client

Warrantech Announces Premium Increase to Major Client

Warrantech Corp announced that CompUSA, Inc. has indicated that it will not accept a premium increase imposed by CIGNA Property and Casualty Insurance Company with respect to the insurance underlying the extended service plans sold by CompUSA. ... Continue reading

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