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SORL Auto Parts Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results

SORL Auto Parts Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results

Reports 13% Increase in Revenues and 15% Increase in Diluted EPS for 2008 ZHEJIANG, China, March 30 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- 2008 Financial Highlights: -- Revenue increased 13.1% year-over-year to US$130.9 million -- Gross profit margin increased to 25.7% compared with 23.3% a year ago -- Net income rose 15.1% ye ... Continue reading

Pep Boys' Fourth Quarter Results Conference Call to Be Broadcast on Investorcalendar.com

Pep Boys' Fourth Quarter Results Conference Call to Be Broadcast on Investorcalendar.com

PHILADELPHIA--The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack , the nation’s leading automotive aftermarket service and retail chain, will broadcast its fourth quarter earnings conference call live on Thursday, April 9 at 8:30 a.m. ET. The conference call will be broadcast over the Internet at http://www.investorcalendar.co ... Continue reading

Goodyear Aviation Celebrates 100th Anniversary

Goodyear Aviation Celebrates 100th Anniversary

AKRON, Ohio, March 30 -- Back in 1903, the Wright Brothers made history with their first successful flight in a self-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In the years that followed, they made great progress in the air, but getting back on the ground was still challenging. Their sled-runner style of landing gear - not t ... Continue reading

DealerTrack Schedules Release of First Quarter 2009 Results and Conference Call

DealerTrack Schedules Release of First Quarter 2009 Results and Conference Call

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.--DealerTrack Holdings, Inc. today announced that it will release its first quarter 2009 financial results before the market opens on May 8, 2009. A conference call will be hosted by Mark F. O’Neil, chairman and chief executive officer, and Eric Jacobs, senior vice president and chief financial o ... Continue reading

Correct Car Care Means Value Retention - High Quality Care Agents from Volkswagen Accessories that Are Easy to Use

Correct Car Care Means Value Retention - High Quality Care Agents from Volkswagen Accessories that Are Easy to Use

A high quality care product and the correct use of it are a decisive factor for an optimum cleaning of the car. Volkswagen Accessories offers original Volkswagen care products for the bodywork and interior that retain the value of your vehicle and are also easy to use. Volkswagen Accessories shows you how it works and ... Continue reading

Valentine's Concourse Carnauba Wax Goes Global

Valentine's Concourse Carnauba Wax Goes Global

Belfast, Northern Ireland March 26, 2009; Launched exclusively for sale in the United Kingdom in November 2009, Valentine's Concours Carnauba wax received immediate praise from motoring press, detailing professionals and individual customers. Despite restricting sales initially to the United Kingdom and Ireland, the co ... Continue reading

A More Perfect (Honda) Fit: ScanGauge Let's You See How Efficiently You're Driving, Instantly

A More Perfect (Honda) Fit: ScanGauge Let's You See How Efficiently You're Driving, Instantly

by Michael Jackman Louisville Bureau The Auto Channel In my last three columns I talked a bunch about how to improve mileage. The downside to all that knowledge is that you have to wait until fill up time to do the math and see how well you did. I don’t have that kind of patience. That’s why one day my wife g ... Continue reading

Johnson Controls Announces Restructuring Charge; Affirms Expectation of Profitable Second Half of Fiscal 2009

Johnson Controls Announces Restructuring Charge; Affirms Expectation of Profitable Second Half of Fiscal 2009

MILWAUKEE, March 27 -- To further align its cost structure with global automotive market conditions, Johnson Controls, Inc. today announced plans to initiate restructuring activities which will result in an estimated pre-tax charge of $200 - $215 million in its 2009 second quarter. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin ... Continue reading

Tradition and Innovation: The Audi Centennial Timepiece

Tradition and Innovation: The Audi Centennial Timepiece

100 years of Audi. A truly special anniversary, commemorated with an exceptional chronograph: the new Audi Centennial Timepiece. It embodies the brand's incomparable values: tradition and innovation, design and precision, sophistication and perfection. A magnum opus of horology, this chronograph boasts a tachometer fun ... Continue reading

Cooper-Standard Automotive Reorganizes Operations into Geographic Structure

Cooper-Standard Automotive Reorganizes Operations into Geographic Structure

NOVI, Mich., March 26 -- Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. announced today a reorganization of its operating and reporting structures involving the discontinuation of its global Body & Chassis and Fluid Systems product line operating divisions and their supporting organization structures and the establishment of new oper ... Continue reading

Firestone Complete Auto Care and Driver's Edge Renew Partnership

Firestone Complete Auto Care and Driver's Edge Renew Partnership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Susan Steeno Dye, Van Mol & Lawrence 615-780-3317 FIRESTONE COMPLETE AUTO CARE(tm) AND DRIVER'S EDGE RENEW PARTNERSHIP LAS VEGAS, NEV. (March 25, 2009) - Motor vehicle collisions kill more teens each year than guns, drugs and violent crimes combined. That's why Firestone Complete Auto Car ... Continue reading

Get 12% Longer Tread Life with the British-Designed Cooper Zeon CS6

Get 12% Longer Tread Life with the British-Designed Cooper Zeon CS6

Cooper Tire's newest high-performance tyre, the Cooper Zeon CS6, will do its bit in the current economic climate by delivering extra durability and an increased lifespan for motorists. ... Continue reading

WABCO Announces Transition of Chairman of the Board

WABCO Announces Transition of Chairman of the Board

CEO Esculier Assumes Additional Role as Chairman BRUSSELS, March 24 -- WABCO Holdings Inc. , a global technology leader and tier-one supplier to the commercial vehicle industry, announced today that Jacques Esculier, the company's Chief Executive Officer, will assume the additional role of Chairman of the Board, effect ... Continue reading

Global Leader Hella Produces 100-Millionth Electronic Pedal Sensor

Global Leader Hella Produces 100-Millionth Electronic Pedal Sensor

PLYMOUTH, Mich.--Automotive supplier Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. marked a major milestone in mid-February, producing its 100-millionth electronic pedal-sensor module at its plant in Recklinghausen, Germany. Hella’s first-generation of electronic pedal modules were made in 1996 in Recklinghausen. Today, more than 500 He ... Continue reading

BorgWarner to Supply DualTronic Transmission Control System for Fiat Powertrain Technologies

BorgWarner to Supply DualTronic Transmission Control System for Fiat Powertrain Technologies

BorgWarner DualTronic(R) Transmission Control Technology Expanded to First Application in Dry Dual-Clutch System AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 24 -- BorgWarner will supply its award-winning DualTronic transmission control system for Fiat Powertrain Technologies' (FPT) first dry dual-clutch transmission. The transmission i ... Continue reading

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