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Volkswagen Group Receives Approvals to Acquire Majority Voting Stake in Scania

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Share of voting rights will amount to 68.60 percent

Wolfsburg, 17 July 2008 -- The Volkswagen Group has received the antitrust approvals necessary to acquire a majority voting stake in Swedish truck manufacturer Scania AB. The majority voting stake is expected to be acquired on July 22, 2008. In addition to the approval by the European Commission, a large number of antitrust proceedings were required in other countries worldwide.

Nissan Motor Co. Holds 109th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

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YOKOHAMA, June 25, 2008 – Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today held its 109th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders at the National Convention Hall of Yokohama. The meeting lasted for 2 hours 31 minutes starting from 10:00 JST and concluded at 12:31 JST. A total of 2034 shareholders attended the meeting.

President and CEO Carlos Ghosn delivered an address to the shareholders, reporting on the company’s fiscal year 2007 sales and financial performance, outlook for 2008, and the strategic vision for the next five years under the Nissan GT 2012 mid-term business plan.

Nissan proposed a 20-yen-per-share year-end dividend, giving a full-year dividend of 40 yen per share for FY2007.

Five items were proposed to the shareholders for approval:

Results of the Aisin Seiki's 85th General Meeting of Shareholders

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June 20, 2008 -- Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (President: Yasuhito Yamauchi; Head Office: Kariya, Aichi) convened its 85th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders today, June 20, 2008, from 10 a.m. at the Head Office.

Details on the meeting are as follows.

1. Status of Meeting
(1) Date and time: Friday, June 20, 2008, at 10 a.m.
(2) Location: Head Office (Kariya, Aichi)
(3) Total time of meeting: 68 minutes (59 minutes in the previous fiscal year)
(4) Shareholders attending: 224 (240 in the previous fiscal year)
(5) Number of agenda for resolution: 7 (8 in the previous fiscal year)

2. Matters for Reporting and Resolution
(1) Matters for Reporting: Details of the following financial statements:

Nissan Publishes Its 2008 Sustainability Report

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TOKYO, June 24, 2008 -- Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. will publish its 2008 Sustainability Report on June 25, after the conclusion of its 109th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders. The fifth-edition of the report offers an update of Nissan's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives within the scope of nine key focus areas identified by the company.

The report includes the Nissan CSR Scorecard which tracks the progress made on annual CSR objectives. It also outlines the achievements during fiscal year 2007 and defines new targets for 2008 as part of a roadmap for continued CSR development.

General Motors Annual Stockholders Meeting to Be Held June 3

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Detroit, Mich., 2008-06-02 -- General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM) will hold its annual stockholders meeting on June 3, 2008 at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. In conjunction with the stockholders meeting, a press conference and conference call with investment analysts and media have also been scheduled.

Press Conference
The press conference, hosted by Chairman and CEO, Rick Wagoner, will begin at 8:00 a.m. EDT in the du Barry room of the du Pont hotel. In addition, a viewing room will also be available in the Jefferson Room in the Renaissance Conference Center located on Level 2 of Tower 300 in the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Mich. The room will be open at 7:00 a.m.

Annual Meeting

Ford Motor Company Is Neutral on Tracinda Corporation Tender Offer

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DEARBORN, Mich., May 22, 2008 – Ford Motor Company [NYSE: F] announced today that its Board of Directors has determined that Ford will express no opinion and is neutral with respect to Tracinda Corporation’s tender offer to purchase up to 20 million shares of Ford’s common stock at a price of $8.50 per share, net to the seller in cash.

The shares sought in the tender offer represent just less than 1 percent of Ford’s outstanding common stock. According to the Schedule TO filed by Tracinda on May 9, 2008, Tracinda’s tender offer will expire on June 9, 2008 at 5 p.m., New York City time, unless the offer is extended.

Volkswagen Receives Further Award for Increasing Shareholder Value

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Total shareholder return also highest in Europe

Wolfsburg/Turin, 21 May 2008 - The Volkswagen Group has achieved the highest increase in shareholder value of all stock market listed companies in the European automotive industry. The auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) presented this year’s European Automotive Shareholder Value Award to Europe’s largest automaker in Turin on Tuesday evening. Volkswagen had already received the award for the highest increase in shareholder value in a global comparison in January.

Visteon Announces Tender Offer, New Notes Offering

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VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., May 19, 2008 – Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC) today announced that it has commenced a tender offer for up to $344 million of its 8.25 percent notes due August 2010 (the “Old Notes”). Each Eligible Holder (as defined below) who tenders Old Notes in the tender offer is required, as a condition to such Eligible Holder’s participation in the tender offer, to purchase a principal amount of Visteon’s new 12.25 percent senior notes due 2016 (the “New Notes”) equal to 60 percent of the aggregate principal amount of Notes purchased from such Eligible Holder pursuant to the tender offer at a purchase price equal to 91.621 percent of the principal amount thereof.

Tenneco Announces Results of 2008 Annual Shareholder Meeting

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Lake Forest, Illinois, May 6, 2008 – Tenneco Inc. (NYSE:TEN) announced at its annual meeting today that its shareholders re-elected Charles W. Cramb, Dennis J. Letham, Frank E. Macher, Roger B. Porter, David B. Price, Jr., Gregg M. Sherrill, Paul T. Stecko, Mitsunobu Takeuchi and Jane L. Warner to the company’s board of directors.

The directors have been re-elected to serve a term expiring at the 2009 annual meeting of stockholders. Stockholders also ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent public accountants for 2008.

Cummins Chairman and CEO Tim Solso Tells Shareholders Cummins on Pace for Another Record Year in 2008

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COLUMBUS, IND., May 13, 2008 -- Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) is on pace to report a fifth consecutive year of record sales and profits in 2008, and is poised for significant further growth over the next several years, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tim Solso told shareholders today at the Company’s annual meeting.

Cummins shareholders re-elected all nine Cummins directors for another year and ratified the selection of PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLC as the Company’s external auditing firm. Shareholders also voted to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 300 million to 500 million and defeated a shareholder proposal calling on the Company to take steps to adhere to the conventions of the International Labor Organization.

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