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Walbridge Aldinger Honored With Ford's World Excellence Award

22 March 1999

Walbridge Aldinger Honored With Ford's World Excellence Award

    DETROIT, March 22 -- Walbridge Aldinger received Ford Motor
Company's Gold World Excellence Award, recognizing the company as one of its
top suppliers in the world for 1998 performance.
    The World Excellence Award, given to 47 suppliers this year, is a
prestigious annual award honoring Ford production suppliers who have met and
exceeded rigorous standards for performance in cost, quality and delivery as
measured by the Supplier Improvement Metrics (SIM); Commodity-specific metrics
are used for non-production suppliers.
    SIM data are available to Ford suppliers on the exclusive Ford Supplier
Network website, located at http://web.suppliers.ford.com.
    Carlos Mazzorin, Ford Motor Company's Group Vice President of Purchasing
and Ford of Mexico said, "Walbridge Aldinger is world-class -- part of an
exclusive club of Ford's top suppliers.  Walbridge Aldinger made extraordinary
contributions to Ford that helped make 1998 a very successful year and helped
deliver high quality and value to our customers.  Performance like this
deserves to be recognized."
    There are four categories of awards.  The Gold Award is given to the
business units of suppliers that excel in all three areas of cost, quality and
delivery; five suppliers won the Gold Award.
    "We are proud to be one of the first recipients of the Ford World
Excellence Award," said Walbridge Aldinger Chairman and CEO John Rakolta Jr.
"Walbridge strives to provide efficient, productive and creative design
solutions and quality construction services for its clients.  We are very
pleased to receive recognition for our team of employees who make quality
performance their day-to-day mission."  Last year Walbridge was the first
major general contractor and construction manager in the United States to earn
registration to ISO 9001-1994 for design and construction services.
    Walbridge Aldinger is a worldwide full-service construction company with
offices in Detroit, Mich., Tampa, Fla., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Aurora, Ill.
The company was founded in Detroit in 1916.