BERU Appoints Dr.-Ing. Thomas Waldhier as CEO.LUDWIGSBURG, Germany -- Effective October 1, 2007, the Supervisory Board Supervisory board The board of directors that represents stakeholders in the governance of the corporation. of BERU Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigsburg, in its meeting of August 27, 2007 has appointed Dr.-Ing. Thomas Waldhier as Member and Chairman of its Board of Management. Dr. Waldhier has more than ten years of experience as a Member of Management Boards in companies who are suppliers to the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. . Since April 2004 he has been Member of the Management Board of SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Autosystemtechnik, Karlsruhe, a joint venture company between Faurecia and SiemensVDO, which as a supplier and especially as a system integrator is a leading partner of the automotive industry. The company employs about 4,000 people and is operating in more than twenty plants worldwide. BERU Aktiengesellschaft is a leading manufacturer and worldwide partner of the automotive industry for ignition ignition, apparatus for igniting a combustible mixture. The German engineer Nikolaus A. Otto, in his first gas engine, used flame ignition; another method was heating a metal tube to incandescence. technology for gasoline engines gasoline engine: see internal-combustion engine. gasoline engine Most widely used form of internal-combustion engine, found in most automobiles and many other vehicles. and cold-start technology for diesel engines as well as for electronic products and sensors. In FY 2006 the company employed about 2,500 people with sales of about EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 440 million and an EBIT-ratio of 12.2%. The Executive Board
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