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Reston, Va. - AutoNetwork webcast Mike Dale, president of Jaguar Motor Cars, announcement of his first African American dealer at the NAMAD (National Association of Minority Dealers) annual meeting in Houston, Texas. David Stephens, a Lincoln/Mercury dealer, will open his Jaguar franchise in Plano, Texas later this year.

AutoNetwork recently launched the Automotive Industry Channel, a subscription service, to webcast such events. The Automotive Industry Channel is designed to be carried on the website of auto dealers, financial institutions, newspapers, and radio & TV.

The NAMAD annual meeting also featured auto manufacturers outlining there diversity marketing programs and conducting preliminary interviews of minority dealers for additional franchises and James Cole, General Counsel Republic Industries, the keynote speaker for lunch.

The annual meeting was webcast by AutoNetwork with the assistance of MelaNet and can be seen on demand in the African American’s Car Buyer’s Guide’s Video Gallery - www.aacbg.com.

“Jaguar’s Sunday Jazz Brunch was the highlight of the annual meeting and Mike Dale’s moving diversity marketing presentation capped off with the appointment of a Black Jaguar dealer is why I was there,” says Roosevelt Gist, president AutoNetwork. Jaguar fully sponsored Mr. Gist  covering the NAMAD meeting.

AutoNetwork, it’s African American’s Car Buyer’s Guide and Automotive Industry Channel are featured in an article this week on Microsoft’s website http://home.microsoft.com/reading/business.asp and in the print magazine The Conduit - www.theconduit.com.