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Coach Industries Group Inc. Appoints New CEO and Vice Chairman.


COOPER CITY, Fla. -- Coach Industries Group, Inc. ("Coach Industries") (OTCBB OTCBB

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 to commercial fleet operators, including vehicle financing and specialty insurance products, today announced the appointment of Robert L. Lefebvre as the new Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Coach Industries Group, Inc. effective immediately. Mr. Lefebvre has been the President of SubContracting Concepts Inc. (SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec.

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), a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

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In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 of Coach Industries, since its inception 10 years ago. SCI has been the best performing unit in the CIGI family since they were acquired in 2004. The Coach board recognizes Mr. Lefebvre's years of business experience as a very positive asset in the restructuring and execution of the CIGI business plan. Steven Rothman, which has been acting as Interim CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , will remain on as Chairman.

"Bob Lefebvre is just the kind of executive Coach Industries needs right now to restructure our business units," states Rothman. "Since Bob founded SCI ten years ago, that corporation has never experienced a loss while Bob has been at the helm. His hands on management style is precisely what we need right now. Our board recognizes Bob's years of business experience as an asset in the restructuring and execution of our business plan. We are very happy to have Bob accept this position and we look forward to his input in getting the job done."

Mr. Lefebvre's business history is a series of successful ventures that have had many crossovers into the commercial fleet operator business models. He began his career in 1958 while serving a five-year tour of duty in the US Air Force as a systems analyst. While in the Air Force's Pacific Air Command, Mr. Lefebvre was part of a seven member team whose responsibility was the conversion from punch card A storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that holds data as patterns of punched holes. Each of the 80 or 96 columns holds one character. The holes are punched by a keypunch machine or card punch peripheral and are fed into the computer by a card reader.  accounting systems to the newly developed computer.

After his discharge in 1963, Mr. Lefebvre spent a number of years as a systems analyst at the Glens Falls Hospital. In 1970, capitalizing on changes in Medicare reimbursement policies that provided for direct reimbursement to hospital based physicians, he founded Regional Data Center (RDC RDC Republique Democratique du Congo (French)
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RDC Rowan Companies, Inc
), a company designed to manage the accounts receivables for the hospital based physician. RDC grew very quickly to a company collecting over $400 million per year from 29 offices in New York New York, state, United States
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. Mr. Lefebvre then merged his company into Advacare, a national accounts receivable management firm and continued as Vice President until Advacare went public.

Mr. Lefebvre again became active in business by founding a Professional Employment Organization called Total Benefit Management (TBM TBM
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) which he still maintains an equity position.

"I'm very excited about the opportunity to make a difference for the employees, clients and shareholders of Coach Industries. I have always believed in our business model and I will be empowering my staff to create strategies that can improve the Coach financial position and facilitate the cross marketing opportunities we have between the business units," states Lefebvre. "The key to any successful business is the people and I feel very strongly that the people we will have in place will embrace the opportunity to accomplish our goal for profitability and growth."

Bill Lerner, CIGI Board member, states, "Bob is a hands on, down to earth, logical businessman. His past successes are very encouraging to all of us involved. We fully support Bob and will contribute in any way that we can to assist him achieve financial stability."

About Coach Industries Group, Inc.

Coach Industries Group, Inc. (OTCBB:CIGI) ("Coach") is a holding company focused on providing financial services and the manufacturing of luxury limousine and specialty vehicles to Commercial Fleet Operators.

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