Article: Tenneco Automotive Announces Fourth Quarter Charge; Company Initiates Worldwide Effort to Improve Manufacturing and Distribution Efficiency.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Tenneco Automotive announced today that the company has received approval from its board of directors to begin implementing the first phase of a company-wide initiative to optimize its global manufacturing, distribution, and logistics footprint.

"Our goal is to better manage our operating costs worldwide in order to help strengthen the company's competitiveness and profitability," said Mark P. Frissora, chairman and CEO, Tenneco Automotive. "The objectives of this and future phases are to maximize our capacity utilization by leaning out and redesigning our manufacturing facilities, and to improve our distribution efficiency worldwide."

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