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U. S. Steel Names John B. Peters General Manager of Automotive

4 December 2000

U. S. Steel Names John B. Peters General Manager of Automotive

    TROY, Mich., Dec. 4 Paul J. Wilhelm, president of U. S.
Steel Group , a unit of USX Corporation, today announced the
appointment of John B. Peters as general manager-automotive, effective
January 1, 2001. Peters succeeds J. James Kutka, Jr., who was named vice
president-sales, sheet products for U. S. Steel.
    In his new assignment, Peters will oversee automotive sales and marketing,
and the company's state-of-the-art 14,000-square-foot steel automotive
applications facility in Troy, Mich.
    Peters, who holds a bachelor's degree in finance from Indiana University
in Bloomington, Ind., began his career with U. S. Steel in 1985 as a
management associate in Houston, Texas.  He moved through a series of
increasingly responsible sales positions in tubular products before moving to
automotive sheet sales in 1991 where he worked with both Chrysler and Ford.
In 1994 he was named a manager-marketing for sheet products in Pittsburgh.
    In 1996, Peters was named district sales manager-Troy and is currently the
manager of sales and service for the General Motors account.
    Peters and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Beverly Hills, Mich.
They have two children, Michael and Katherine.
    (For more information on U. S. Steel, visit our Website at http://www.usx.com or
http://www.ussteel.com.)

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