Article: MotorVac Pins Hopes on Monark

After failing to meet earnings expectations, Santa Ana-based MotorVac Technologies Inc. hopes that bringing in an auto industry veteran as chairman will help revive the company's stock, which has taken a beating in recent months.

MotorVac's shares have recently been trading at under $2 a share, down more than 60% from the April 1996 initial offering price of 5 3/8.

The company, which makes a system to remove deposits from gas and diesel engines, last month appointed Ron Monark as chairman. Monark has been Chairman and CEO of Mitchell Repair Information Co., a company half-owned by Kenosha, Wis.-based Snap-On Inc., the main distributor of MotorVac's CarbonClean system and its proprietary ...

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