December 30, 2004: Motor Industries Co. Ltd., (MICO) a flagship of Robert Bosch GmBH in India since 1953, has been actively involved in various social, scientific, cultural and health related activities in the country. It has woken up to the immediate tsunami disaster that has hit the nation and the company has decided to contribute a sum of Rs 1 crore towards this initiative.

Mico through this first small gesture of being a socially responsible corporate, will be raising this fund from all its employees alongwith an equally matching contribution by the company as well. It hopes to reach out to the affected people for their resettlement programme with
this humble contribution.

About MICO
Motor Industries Company Limited (MICO) is a Bosch Group company present in India for the last 53 years and has catered to the Indian auto market with technology support from Bosch. It is the largest Indo-German company and a household name in the country today. Mico has developed excellent R&D and manufacturing capabilities. Its strong customer base and the market leadership are a testimony to its technology and quality of products. MICO currently has 4 plants in India including 2 in Bangalore and 1 each in Jaipur and Nashik. All the 4 plants are TS 16949 and ISO 14001 certified. The service network of Mico spans across 1000 towns and cities across India. Over 10,000 employees are currently employed with Mico across its R&D, manufacturing and sales and service network.

About Bosch Group
The Bosch Group, a German company, is strong globally in the business sectors - Automotive Technology, Industrial Technology, as well as Consumer Goods and Building Technology. In 2003, worldwide sales were EUR 36.4 billion. The Bosch Group operates
258 subsidiaries, of which 215 are located outside Germany, and has a total of 2,39,000 employees worldwide.

Sales of Bosch Group in India in 2003 were 413 million euro, of which 361 million euro were from automotive technology.