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Johnson Controls Earns Top Automotive Supplier Ranking

8 March 2001

Johnson Controls Earns Top Automotive Supplier Ranking on FORTUNE Most Admired Companies List

    MILWAUKEE, March 8 Johnson Controls, Inc. was
ranked at the top of FORTUNE magazine's America's Most Admired Companies list
of automotive suppliers for 2000.
    Clark, Martire & Bartolomeo (CM&B), a leading research firm, polled
10,000 executives, directors and financial analysts, asking them to rank
companies in their own industries.  Johnson Controls was the most admired
company in the "Motor Vehicles & Parts" category.  Companies were rated in the
following areas: management quality, product quality, innovativeness,
investment value, financial soundness, talent, social responsibility and use
of assets.
    FORTUNE's list of America's Most Admired Companies included rankings of
61 industries, with 10 companies in each category.  The winners were selected
from the 1,000 largest U.S. companies (ranked by revenues) and the 25 largest
U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies.
    Johnson Controls, Inc. is a global market leader in automotive systems and
facility management and control.  In the automotive market, it is a major
supplier of seating and interior systems, and batteries.  For non-residential
facilities, Johnson Controls provides building control systems and services,
energy management and integrated facility management.  Johnson Controls,
founded in 1885, has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis. (U.S.A.).  Its sales for
2000 totaled US$17.2 billion.  Visit http://www.johnsoncontrols.com