Auto Club to Immediately Begin Marketing Driversshield.com Auto Discounts
21 December 1999
Auto Club of America to Immediately Begin Marketing Driversshield.com Auto Discounts and Services Program PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Dec. 21 -- First Priority Group, Inc.
today announced the signing of an agreement underwhich the
fast-growing Driver's Shield(R) program of automotive discounts and services
will be marketed by the prestigious, Auto Club of America.
"This agreement will further expand our program's rapidly growing
membership base," said B. J. Spiegel a senior executive of Driver's Shield,
Inc. "We're pleased to be partnering with one of the nation's best auto clubs
in extending Driver's Shield's(R) benefits to a wider national audience."
Joseph Belz, Vice President of Auto Club of America, commented that the
addition of Driver's Shield(R) services would greatly enhance ACA's offerings
to its members. "It's an excellent array of services that, we think our
members will especially like, with such features as the Auto Service Hotline
and a lifetime warranty on collision repairs," he said. Under the two-year
agreement, Auto Club of America can offer any and all Driver's Shield(R)
benefits as part of its own program.
Many membership organizations already offer the full spectrum of Driver's
Shield(R) services as a benefit to their members. A number of financial
institutions, including Providian Bank and the Assurant Group, are also
aggressively marketing Driver's Shield(R) services to their customers.
Spiegel said program sales have grown more than 100% in the past 6 months and
expects continued explosive growth.
The Drivers Shield(R) program is provided by Driver's Shield, Inc., a
wholly owned subsidiary of driversshield.com Corp., which is a wholly owned
subsidiary of FPG. In the next several weeks, once the driversshield.com
Internet based auto collision repair claims management service is fully
operational, insured drivers, whose collision repairs are processed utilizing
the driversshield.com web site, will receive a free one year membership in the
Driver's Shield(R) automotive discount and services program, including a
lifetime warranty on auto body repairs. Auto Club of America's members will
also have access to the driversshield.com collision repair process.
Auto Club of America is a 23 year-old organization, headquartered in
Oklahoma City. Its customers include Liberty Life Insurance, the Bank of
Hawaii, Autoworld.com and Warrantygold.com, among others. It provides auto
buying, leasing, roadside assistance and a wide range of other automobile-
related services.
In addition to its Drivers Shield(R) affinity program and
driversshield.com, First Priority Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary
National Fleet Service, Inc., provides comprehensive auto claims management
services for self-insured corporate and municipal vehicle fleets. Customers
include such prominent companies as, IBM, The Disney Company, Hershey Foods
and The Coca-Cola Company, among others.
This announcement contains "forward looking statements". Words
"anticipate," "believe," estimate," "expect" and other similar expressions as
they relate to the Company and its management are intended to identify such
forward looking statements. Although the Company and its management believe
that the statements contained in this announcement are reasonable, it can give
no assurances that such statements will prove correct. Factors that could
affect the occurrence of events or results discussed herein are included with
those mentioned in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
commission.
