PALO ALTO, CA — Frost & Sullivan has selected TI Automotive as the recipient of the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement in the North American fuel pumps aftermarket. This is in recognition of its market leadership in providing a unique product line and solutions that offer high customer value in terms of superior performance-to- price ratio, coupled with high reliability and easy installation.

Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has demonstrated the ability to expand the customer base, while maintaining its existing install base, with more innovative value creation and enhancement strategies than competing vendors. This award recognizes the company’s successful sales entry, customer acquisition and service strategies, and the degree to which those strategies have met customers’ stated needs and requirements. Such innovation is expected to significantly improve customer interaction and contribute to customer satisfaction.

"TI Automotive’s customer-focused product development process has enabled the company to introduce new electric fuel pumps faster than the competition," said Frost & Sullivan GIC Industry Manager Avijit Ghosh. "The company has been successful in reducing the time to market of its in-tank and in-line fuel pumps, which include gerotor and turbine designs and fuel delivery modules."

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