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Lear Corporation Appoints Mark Yost Director - Technology Communications

13 November 2000

Lear Corporation Appoints Mark Yost Director - Technology Communications

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Nov. 13 Lear Corporation
today announced the appointment of Mark R. Yost to Director - Technology
Communications, reporting to Lear Vice President - Corporate Relations, Leslie
A. Touma.
    As Director - Technology Communications, Yost will be responsible for
increasing the global visibility of Lear's technological capabilities and new
product and process innovations through a media outreach campaign, and at
exhibits and trade shows.
    Yost joins Lear from Bloomberg News in Southfield, Mich., where he was a
business reporter covering the auto industry.  Prior to joining Bloomberg, he
was a reporter with Dow Jones & Co. Inc., covering the auto industry for the
Dow Jones Newswires from Detroit and high-tech startup companies in the
Washington, D.C.-area from the Richmond, Va., bureau.
    During his eight-year career with Dow Jones, Yost also spent time writing
for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, primarily about U.S.
defense issues such as advanced communications strategies and digitizing the
21st-century battlefield.
    Yost has also worked as the Public Relations representative for GM's
Oldsmobile Division on the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.  A native of Bath, N.Y.,
Yost earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Brooklyn (N.Y.) College
following six years of service in the U.S. Navy.
    Lear Corporation, a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Southfield,
Mich., USA, focuses on automotive interiors and electronics, and is the
world's fifth-largest automotive supplier.  Sales in 1999 were $12.4 billion.
The company's world-class products are designed, engineered and manufactured
by more than 120,000 employees in over 300 facilities located in 33 countries.
Information about Lear and its products is available on the Internet at
http://www.lear.com