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Ford Board Forms Committee for Environmental and Public Policy Issues: Bill Ford to Head Committee

10 July 1997

Ford Board Forms Committee for Environmental and Public Policy Issues: Bill Ford to Head Committee

    DEARBORN, Mich., July 10 -- A new committee of the Ford
Board of Directors has been formed that will review company
strategies on environmental and public policy issues.  Membership will be
comprised of outside directors and the committee will be chaired by William
Clay Ford, Jr., who also is chairman of the Finance Committee.
    "Ford has always been responsible and active in taking thoughtful
positions and actions in those areas of the business that directly affect the
public well-being, such as its commitments in environmental matters," said
Ford Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alex Trotman.  "With major
environmental issues being debated around the world, the Board felt it was the
right time to designate a specific committee of outside directors that would
focus on these and other public policy subjects to assure oversight of our
company's strategies, plans and activities.  Bill Ford has agreed to chair the
committee and Roberto Goizueta, Ellen Marram and Homer Neal have agreed to
serve on it with him."
    "These issues are important today and will be at the forefront of policy
issues well into the next century," said Bill Ford.  "They are important not
only to Ford but to society as a whole".
    The new committee will meet three or four times each year and will review
all aspects of the company's policies and practices.  From time to time, the
committee will report and make recommendations to the full Board.

SOURCE  Ford Motor Company