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Visteon Continues Building Customer Service In Asia-Pacific Region

3 February 1999

Visteon Continues Building Customer Service In Asia-Pacific Region With New Director

    DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 3 -- Visteon Automotive Systems has
appointed Rikuo Miyake managing director of its Asia-Pacific region.
    Miyake, former regional director of Visteon's marketing, sales and service
efforts in this region, succeeds Bernard J. Thornton, who has been appointed
to a new position within the organization.
    In his new role, Miyake will oversee all operations including marketing,
sales and services, business strategies, and research and development in
Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries.
    Miyake joined Visteon after a 30-year career with Matsushita Electric, one
of Japan's most prominent electronics manufacturers.  Miyake held a succession
of sales and product development assignments at Matsushita, including
positions as president of the company's sales network in Malaysia, general
manager of Corporate Automotive Electronic Sales, and director of Matsushita's
Kanagawa Industrial Sales Office, where he directed sales of electronic key
devices and other electronic components.
    Visteon is committed to customer success in the Asia-Pacific region and
continues to expand its presence there.  Visteon has 15 production facilities
in the Asia-Pacific region including joint ventures in Japan, China, India,
Korea, and Thailand.  A new powertrain facility in the Philippines is under
construction.
    Visteon also has sales and customer service bases and research and
development facilities in Yokohama, Hiroshima and Higashi Hiroshima.  Visteon
Asia-Pacific Aichi was established as a customer sales and service base for
the Chubu and Tokai areas and Visteon Singapore has been established as a
business base for the ASEAN region.
    Visteon has 82,000 employees and 120 manufacturing, engineering, sales and
technical centers located in 21 countries.  Visteon's corporate headquarters
is located in Dearborn, Mich.