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DaimlerChrysler Leads Global Summit of Women

12 October 2000

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - More than 500 women leaders from throughout the world 
gathered last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, to explore global issues 
impacting women.  The DaimlerChrysler Corporation was the lead sponsor of the 
tenth annual Global Summit of Women 2000: Africa.

    "This summit furthered our outreach to a global community of women," said
Monica Emerson, DaimlerChrysler Director of Staffing, Development and
Diversity.  "It also enabled us to communicate our compassion for the issues
that impact the success of women at home and at work," she said.  Emerson's
comments followed remarks by Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa,
who encouraged women in their support for each other and their countries.

    DaimlerChrysler's delegation included Diana Mercer-Pryor, Director of
Operational Purchasing and Special Supplier Relations and Debra J. Nelson,
Senior Manager, Group Marketing, Diversity and Regional Communications.
Mercer-Pryor addressed a session entitled, Guiding Corporations to Serve the
Women's Market.  "There is a bottom-line business imperative for corporations
to embrace the women's market," she said, citing the increased income earnings
of women and the influence of women in most major household buying decisions.

    The Global Summit of Women attracted women prime ministers from more than
25 countries and heads of African corporations.  Others included Nelson
Mandela, former president of South Africa; Delano Lewis, U.S. Ambassador to
South Africa; Gloria Macapahal-Arroyo, Vice President, the Philippines;
Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe, Vice President, Uganda; former First Lady Graca
Machel (wife of Nelson Mandela) and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN Johannesburg
bureau chief.