07/30/2001 – BROWNSTOWN, Michigan

Chrysler awards export consolidation business to
minority-owned automotive logistics company.

Chrysler has selected TDS/US to provide their export consolidation to Graz, Austria commencing in the fourth quarter of 2001. This contract will be serviced by the TDS/US Brownstown, Michigan facility. Brownstown will also continue to provide international export packing and packaging engineering services to Chrysler.

The export packing business constitutes the first contract for TDS/US since being purchased by a minority investment group headed by Willie Lanier.

“We are very pleased to announce our first piece of business as the newly formed minority company TDS/US,” said Mark Wright, TDS/US President & C.E.O. “Our success on this bid is due both to our history of excellent service delivery to Chrysler and our ability to provide more customized and flexible, value-added solutions than our competitors.”

TDS/US Inc., is the minority-owned venture of TDS Logistics Inc. – a world-leader specializing in integrated and high value-added logistics services for the automotive industry. TDS provides complete logistics solutions including sub-assembly, sequencing, export packing and deconsolidation, after sales parts distribution, supply chain management, and packaging engineering and design services. TDS has 18 facilities throughout the four continents of North and South America, Europe and Asia.