Faurecia North America 'FUELS' Local Communities With More Than 148,000 Pounds of Food Donated to Local Food Banks

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Faurecia North America (http://www.faurecia.com) today announced that through its corporate giving initiative, FUELS – Faurecia Unites with Employees for Local Service – the company has donated more than 148,000 pounds of non-perishable food to local food banks across North America during the month of September. Faurecia's total contributions will provide more than 500,000 meals* to families in need.

Launched in September 2010, FUELS combines the charitable efforts of 9,000 Faurecia employees to make an impact in the neighborhoods and communities where the company has a presence. In addition to food donations, Faurecia employees are participating in volunteer days with their partner food banks. Faurecia employees have already volunteered nearly 650 hours of service through the program.

Faurecia is a tier one automotive supplier specializing in automotive seating, emissions control technologies, interior systems and automotive exteriors and is the sixth largest automotive supplier in the world. Faurecia North America has 34 locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

"We are extremely proud of the FUELS program success," said Michael Heneka, president of Faurecia North America. "Faurecia has always been committed to giving back to the community and our sites across North America have done an incredible job with this campaign. It is exciting to see how much impact we can have when we unite as a company and support our communities."

To foster team spirit and encourage giving, Faurecia challenged its employees to compete in collecting the most pounds of food per person per site. The company pledged to contribute $500 to each local food bank that the sites partnered with if the employees met their respective collection goal. Faurecia further pledged $5,000 for one site in the U.S./Canada and one site in Mexico that collected the most pounds of food per person. Overall, 75 percent of Faurecia's participating sites exceeded their collection goal.

The top two collecting sites were the Northwood, Ohio and the Hermosillo, Mexico plants, which achieved their collection goals by 1,147 percent and 2,048 percent, respectively. The two sites combined collected 23,238 pounds of food. Faurecia will contribute $5,000 for each site's partner food bank.

The overall top collecting sites in the U.S. included:

-Northwood, Ohio (Cheery Street Mission)

-Fraser, Mich. (Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan)

-Holland, Mich. (Community Action House)

-Lansing, Mich. (Mid-Michigan Food Bank)

-Troy, Mich. (Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan)

-Cleveland, Miss. (Bolivar Community Action Program )

Faurecia plans to continue the FUELS initiative in 2011 and beyond. In addition to FUELS, the company participates in a variety of ongoing service-oriented and charitable causes through its business groups and individual sites, including those associated with education, research, volunteerism and other activities.

For more information on FUELS including photos, video, anecdotes and other details about each Faurecia site's contributions, connect with Faurecia on:

-Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FaureciaFUELS

-Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/FaureciaFUELS

-YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/FaureciaFUELS

To view Faurecia's social media press release, featuring pictures and videos from the FUELS campaign, visit: http://pitch.pe/92859

*Source: Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan

About Faurecia (http://www.faurecia.com)

Faurecia North America had sales of $2.3 billion in 2009*. The Group has 29 production sites in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and employs more than 9,000 people in the region. It has four technical and development centers, situated in Auburn Hills, Holland and Troy, Mich., and in Columbus, Ind., as well as a customer center in Toledo, Ohio.

Faurecia is the world's sixth largest automotive equipment supplier with four key business groups: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors. In 2009, the Group posted pro-forma sales of $16 billion**. The company is headquartered in Nanterre, France, with its North American headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. It employs 62,000 people in 32 countries at 200 sites and 33 R&D centers. Faurecia is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange. For more information, visit: www.faurecia.com.

*Pro-forma sales including EMCON Technologies.

**Pro-forma sales including EMCON Technologies and Plastal.

SOURCE Faurecia North America