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National Pronto Asc Fall Shareholders Conference and Annual Supplier Awards

NATIONAL PRONTO ASSOCIATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 10, 2005

Fort Worth, TX - National Pronto Association Announce Fall Shareholder’s Conference and National Pronto presents annual Supplier Awards!

National Pronto Association recently held a Fall Shareholder’s Conference from September 28th – 30th at the Embassy Suites Downtown Lakefront in Chicago, IL.
This meeting was primarily structured as one-on-one sessions between the Shareholder and Supplier; whereby the supplier hosted meetings in their prospective suites over a two-day period. All together over 1,000 one-on-one meetings took place! On Thursday, September 29th, National Pronto was pleased to present the following Supplier Awards;
2005 Supplier of the Year – presented to Cardone Industries. Peter Calo, Joel Farina, John Flower, and Mark Cohen were in attendance to accept the award for Cardone.
2005 Partnership Award – presented to Standard Motor Products. Garey Lange, Don Herring, Chuck Graves, Bob Kimbro, and Ken Wendling were in attendance to accept the award for Standard Motor Products.
2005 Supplier of the Year for Marketing Excellence was presented to Tenneco Automotive. Larry Friesner, Bill Dennie, Howie Cerino, and Rachel Dupras were in attendance to accept the award for Tenneco.
2005 Private Brand Supplier of the Year presented to IAP/DURA. Ed Lynch, Stuart Blum, and Steve Jones were in attendance to accept the award for IAP/DURA.
2005 Supplier of the Year for Manpower Excellence presented to Federal Mogul Corporation. Roy Kent, Cheri Rieth, and Rick Summerville were in attendance to accept the award.
2005 OE Supplier of the Year presented to Bosch. Mike Ashley, Tom Cebula, and Mark Thomas were in attendance to accept the award for Bosch.

After the awards were presented, guest speaker, Frank Ordonez, President, Delphi Products and Solutions spoke to the group about the importance of training technicians in our technology driven world. All in all, over 100 Shareholder’s and over 100 Suppliers attended the three-day event.