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DaimlerChrysler Communications Shine

12 June 1999

DC Takes 13 Awards at IABC/Detroit Presentation

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- DaimlerChrysler was the only company to 
win two Best in Show honors for communications at the18th annual IABC/Detroit 
Renaissance Awards, held Thursday night in Troy, Mich.

In total, the company won 13 awards for various communication programs at the
event, which is held annually by the Detroit chapter of the International
Association of Business Communicators.

    Winning Best in Show for Communications Management was the company's Day
One program, an effort that pulled together communications teams in Auburn
Hills and Stuttgart, as well as company communicators and employees around the
world, to commemorate the birth of the new company.

    A media information kit about the company's concept cars -- Dodge Charger
R/T, Dodge Power Wagon, Jeep(R) Commander and Chrysler Citadel -- won Best in
Show for Design.

    In addition, DCTV, the company's satellite television network for
employees swept the audio/visual category, winning Awards of Excellence, Merit
and Honor.

    DaimlerChrysler Times, the company's employee newspaper, earned awards for
print communication, feature writing and technical writing.  Other winners
were the company's media information kit marking the 15th anniversary of the
minivan and Directions, a DaimlerChrysler Services newsletter that won two
honors.

    "We're delighted to see so many of our talented communicators receive
recognition from their peers in the industry," said Rita McKay, Director -
Internal Communications.

    IABC/Detroit is one of the largest chapters of the International
Association of Business Communicators, an organization of more than 12,000
business communication professionals worldwide.