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Dura Provides Overview of Realignment

4 February 2000

Dura Automotive Systems Provides Overview of Realignment; Focus is Unified Product Lines Worldwide

    ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Feb. 3 -- Dura Automotive Systems, Inc. , a leading global supplier of
driver control systems, body and glass modules, engineered assemblies and
seating systems for the worldwide automobile industry, has realigned the
company around four main divisions to better serve present and future
customers.  The move will help facilitate the company's objective to emphasize
a unified product line focus on a worldwide basis.
    "Because of our size, product line variety, and the global markets in
which we operate," said Dura Chief Executive Officer Karl Storrie, "we need a
corporate structure that effectively leverages both our capabilities and
worldwide sales opportunities by product line.  This change will help us
manage the increasingly complex relationships with our customers while
providing them with best-in-class products in the most effective manner
possible."

    Dura's new divisional structure is as follows:
    -- The Engineered Products Division contains the Seat Systems, Thixotech,
Plastic Products (including Engine Controls), and Mechanical Assemblies
business units.  Joseph Bubenzer, previously in charge of Dura's European
operations, is the Division President.
    -- Dura Chief Operating Officer Don DeFosset will oversee the Driver
Controls Division until a permanent leader is named.  This division contains
the Shift Systems, Cables, and Brake Systems business units.
    -- Jurgen von Heyden, formerly in charge of Dura's Body, Trim and Glass
units in Europe, heads the Body and Glass Division.  Its business units
include Body and Glass Europe and Body and Glass North America.
    -- Robert Pickering will continue to lead Dura's Atwood Mobile Products
Division, which is a leading supplier of a variety of products to the
recreational vehicle, mass transit, and heavy truck markets.

    Under the new structure, each division will have a vice president of sales
and a director of finance.  The former will be responsible for working with
the business units to establish strategic sales and marketing direction for
the division, and to assure that strategies and resources are coordinated
within divisions and company-wide.  The divisional sales vice presidents will
have a direct link to the vice president of sales and marketing in the
company's Rochester Hills headquarters.
    Each director of finance will assist the division president in performing
business analysis, as well as providing guidance and direction to the business
units in their division.  They also will report directly to the corporate vice
president of finance and the company's chief financial officer.
    "Recognizing the fact that Dura has more than tripled in sales in the past
12 months, each of the divisions and associated nine business units will have
full P&L responsibility for their various product and market segments," said
DeFosset.  "This change is essential to insure we remain customer and product
focused during this period of high growth for our company."
    To strengthen its technical capability for customers, Dura also has
created a new position, vice president and chief technical officer.  This
person will work with the technical leaders in the divisions and business
units, be responsible for developing best-in-class engineering systems and
practices worldwide, as well as insuring strong technical emphasis on new
product developments and research.
    Dura Automotive Systems is the world's largest independent designer and
manufacturer of driver control systems, a leading global supplier of door
systems, window systems and engineered mechanical components for the global
automotive industry.  It has more than 20,000 employees and 80 facilities
worldwide.  The company's operating headquarters is in Rochester Hills, Mich.
Its corporate office is located in Minneapolis, Minn.