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Tenneco Automotive Names Larry Pavey Senior Vice President and General Manager

13 February 1998

Tenneco Automotive Names Larry Pavey Senior Vice President and General Manager

    LAKE FOREST, Ill., Feb. 13 -- Tenneco Automotive today
announced it has named Larry Pavey senior vice president and general manager
of the company's North American aftermarket business unit.
    As head of the company's North American aftermarket business, Pavey has
operational responsibility for one of the largest of Tenneco Automotive's five
worldwide strategic business units.  This business manufactures and markets
the industry's premier brands of ride control (Monroe(R) Sensa-Trac(R) shocks
and struts) and exhaust (Walker(R) Quiet Flow(R) and Dynomax(R) performance
muffler) products.
    "We're extremely pleased to have Larry join us," says Thomas E. Evans,
president of Tenneco Automotive.  "He's highly respected in the industry by
both customers and suppliers alike, and clearly demonstrates the very best of
leadership qualities we seek.  Quite simply, he's a perfect fit for us."
    With over 26 years of automotive experience, Pavey joins Tenneco
Automotive from Echlin, maker of RaybestosO brakes, where he was president of
the company's global brake operations.  Having served in a variety of senior
positions at Echlin, he returns to Tenneco Automotive where he began his
automotive career working in the Walker sales organization from 1977 until
1983.  Pavey attended the University of Cincinnati.
    With annual sales of $3.2 billion, Tenneco Automotive is the leading
worldwide manufacturer of ride control and exhaust products and systems for
both the original equipment and replacement markets.  The company manufactures
and markets its product under the Monroe and Walker brand names.
Headquartered in Lake Forest, Ill., Tenneco Automotive operates 73 facilities
in North America, Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and the Asia-
Pacific Rim region.
    Its parent company, Tenneco , is a $7 billion global
manufacturing company headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., with 50,000 employees
worldwide.  Tenneco also has a significant business interest in packaging.
Tenneco Packaging is one of the world's leading diversified producers of
packaging products.
    For more information about Tenneco, visit the Tenneco website at
http://www.tenneco.com

SOURCE  Tenneco Automotive