AlliedSignal Automotive Forms Automotive Products Group, Names Summe President of New Business

28 July 1997
AlliedSignal Automotive Forms Automotive Products Group, Names Summe President of New Business

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., July 28 -- AlliedSignal Automotive
announced today that it has formed a new business, Automotive Products Group,
by combining Aftermarket North America, Aftermarket Europe, Prestone, Friction
Materials, Filters and Spark Plugs, and its Asian operations.
    Greg Summe, currently president of the Engines business at AlliedSignal
Aerospace, will become president of the Automotive Products Group, which will
be based in Morristown, New Jersey.  He will report to John Barter, president
of AlliedSignal Automotive.  Steve Loranger, president of Truck Brake Systems
at AlliedSignal Automotive, will succeed Summe as president of Engines.  A
successor to Loranger at Truck Brake Systems will be named soon.
    The new business, which will serve aftermarket customers as well as
original equipment manufacturers, is intended to improve customer focus and
increase growth by managing business globally and by creating a more seamless
alignment of sales and marketing with manufacturing and engineering.
    "This is an important step in improving the focus of our Automotive
business," said AlliedSignal Automotive President John Barter.  "We have a
strong market position in the products served by this combined business and we
plan to build from that base to strengthen and grow this new organization."
    Summe joined AlliedSignal in 1993 as president of Aerospace's General
Aviation Avionics business.  He became president of Engines in October 1995.
Prior to AlliedSignal, Greg was general manager of the Commercial Motors and
Distribution business of the Electric Motors Division of General Electric in
Ft. Wayne, Ind.  Prior to GE, he was a partner at McKinsey & Co.
    Before joining Truck Brake Systems in 1995, Loranger had been vice
president for air transport Auxiliary Power Units and vice president of sales
and marketing for AlliedSignal Engines.  He joined AlliedSignal in 1981 as an
Aerospace sales engineer.
    AlliedSignal is an advanced technology and manufacturing
company serving customers worldwide with aerospace and automotive products,
chemicals, fibers, plastics and advanced materials.

SOURCE  AlliedSignal Automotive