Article: Mann + Hummel sees sales surge, growth.(News)(Mann+Hummel Automotive Inc.)

In 2003, Mann + Hummel Automotive Inc. was coming off a record year of $120 million in sales in North America, and Claude Mathieu, president and chief operating officer, predicted the firm would hit a sales target of $200 million in 2008.

The Portage, Mich.-based U.S. unit of German auto supplier Mann + Hummel GmbH passed that prediction a year early - in 2007 - and with another $20 million to spare, a big sales growth for a firm that only entered the North American market 10 years earlier.

And despite a slowdown in auto production in the region, the company is continuing to grow, with a 50,000-square-foot expansion under way at its plant in Queretaro, ...

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