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just-auto.com Expands Editorial Staff

11 September 2000

just-auto.com Expands Editorial Staff

    LONDON, Sept. 11 The premier provider of automotive
business intelligence online is pleased to announce the appointment of Ryan
James Tutak as Associate Editor for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union.
    The new position reflects just-auto's plans to develop exclusive and
original information services, by building a team of acknowledged experts in
consulting and journalism around the world.
    Ryan will play a key role in further developing just-auto.com's Eastern
European auto industry coverage.  Eastern Europe and the ex-USSR comprise
27 countries of increasing importance to the globalisation of the auto
business, and Ryan is unrivalled in his coverage of the region, which has been
long neglected and poorly understood.
    With this appointment, just-auto.com believes it will become known quickly
as the leading publisher of automotive analysis, data and news from this part
of the world.
    "We are excited over the new possibilities that Ryan will bring to our
site," said David Leggett, managing editor of just-auto.com.  "I have worked
with Ryan for several years, so I know he will fit nicely into our team."
    Based in Budapest since 1992, Ryan brings an array of knowledge and
resources to just-auto.com, accumulated through extensive travel across the
region, once known loosely as the communist bloc.  Each year, he attends the
major motor shows plus a variety of auto plants and suppliers in Eastern
Europe.
    For just-auto.com, Ryan will regularly supply features and news plus data
services and executive reports.  He also is working on a book about the
automotive evolution of Eastern Europe with annual data on production and
sales of light vehicles 1990-1999.
    Fresh from the Moscow motor show in late August, Ryan already has provided
just-auto.com with an excellent study on Russia (see
http://www.just-auto.com/features_detail.asp?art=253).  He also broke a big
story about a major venture of General Motors in Russia that was re-reported
widely by international media (see
http://www.just-auto.com/features_detail.asp?art=267) .  Over the next month,
his coverage of Russia will continue with interviews of key executives plus a
feature on local manufacturers with photos of their new models that debuted at
the motor show.
    As an indication of Ryan's accomplishments, his work has been reported and
used by companies, institutions and media in 30 countries -- including Arthur
Andersen, Automotive Business International, CNN, Financial Times, Japan
Automotive News, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Nikkei, Reuters, Ward's,
WirtschaftsBlatt and World Bank.

    Ryan can be contacted by:
    E-Mail: rjt@pronet.hu
    Telefon: +36-1-266-2693
    Telefax: +36-1-317-7257

    just-auto.com is the premier online portal for automotive industry
professionals worldwide.  Targeted specifically at industry and business
professionals the site provides a single point of reference for independent
automotive industry information.