North American Lighting, Inc.

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1. General Company Information Founded in 1983, North American Lighting is now a subsidiary of KOITO MANUFACTURING. The company is a manufacturer of vehicle lighting products, including headlamps, signal lamps, and fog lamps at three facilities in Illinois and one in Michigan. The company's forward-lighting products include High Intensity Discharge (HID, also known as xenon lamps) and Adaptive Forward Lighting (AFS) systems. Among its signal lamps are rear-combination lamps and license lamps. North American Lighting is headquartered in Flora, Illinois. This location houses its forward lighting operation producing Headlamps, Fog lamps and Auxiliary Combination Systems. 25 miles west of Flora is the Salem facility where Signal Lamps (Rear Combination Lamps, Tail lamps, Backup Lamps, License Lamps and Rear Appliqués) are produce. At Salem signal lighting operations, empowered employees ensure quality through conscious education, integrated production cells, JIT/Kanban systems and production line fail-safe testing. Our manufacturing system is based on the Toyota Production System (TPS) that ensures costs are closely controlled, inventories are held to a minimum, engineering changes are implemented quickly and deliveries are on time. Paris forward lighting operations, considered one of best automotive lighting assembly plants in the world, houses cutting edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This plant manufactures new technology forward lighting systems such as HID (High Intensity Discharge) and AFS (Adaptive Forward Lighting). Sales and Technology Center is located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Close proximity to customer design centers allows to quickly respond to customer needs. The Technical Center includes Sales & Marketing, Design Engineering, Program Management, R&D and a Model Shop. In-house styling department acts as a conduit between vehicle stylists and lighting engineers to translate styling concepts into feasible realities.

Key People: D&B D-U-N-S Number 115805228 President Daniel R. Robusto Fiscal Year-End March CFO Tim Miller Sales (mil.) $146.7 (est.) Company Type Subsidiary of Employees 2,200 KOITO MANUFACTURING

2. Products Headlamps Turn signal lamps Clearance lamps Fog lamps High mounted stop lamps, Rear lamps Backup lamps/Garnish License Plate Lamps

3. In the News

01/29/2006, Nikkei English News TOKYO (Nikkei)--Automotive lighting manufacturer Koito Mfg. Co. (7276) will spend 2.5 billion yen to build a U.S. plant for signal lights to meet growing demand from Japanese automakers like Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) as well as U.S. firms such as General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. Koito's U.S. subsidiary, North American Lighting Inc., will build its fourth plant. The Alabama factory is slated to begin operation in June 2007 and have signal-light production equivalent to 1.8 million vehicles by 2010. North American Lighting seeks to boost sales to the U.S. Big Three to 16 billion yen in fiscal 2008, up from an estimated 8 billion yen in fiscal 2005. Koito's U.S. unit posted 45.4 billion yen in sales and 1.7 billion yen in operating profit in fiscal 2004. It expects sales to grow to 46.2 billion yen and operating profit to 2.3 billion yen in fiscal 2005.

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