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Ford Motor Co 14 December 2006 Contact: Marcey Evans 313.322.9211 mevans13@ford.com FORD ANNOUNCES CORPORATE REALIGNMENT • Additional Focus on Worldwide Markets and Customers • Improves Leverage of Global Assets and Capabilities DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 14 - Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) President and CEO Alan Mulally today announced a realignment of the company's organization that puts additional focus on its worldwide markets and customers while better leveraging the company's global assets and capabilities. Reporting directly to Mulally under the new structure are the company's three automotive business unit leaders: Mark Fields, Ford of the Americas; Lewis Booth, Ford of Europe and the Premier Automotive Group; and John Parker, Ford of Asia Pacific and Africa, and Mazda. In support of the business units, Derrick Kuzak will lead global product development, and report to Mulally. He will also continue to be responsible for product development for the Americas. J Mays continues to lead Ford design and will support Kuzak. Also now reporting to Mulally, and similarly focused on using the company's global assets to better support its automotive business units, are: Tony Brown, purchasing; Bennie Fowler, quality and advanced manufacturing engineering; Nick Smither, information technology; and Richard Parry-Jones, chief technical officer. Mulally's other direct reports remain unchanged. 'An integrated, global product development team supporting our automotive business units will enable us to make the best use of our global assets and capabilities and accelerate development of the new vehicles our customers prefer, and do so more efficiently,' Mulally said. 'This new leadership will enable us to work together more effectively as one Ford team to continuously improve the quality, productivity and speed of our product development process.' Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures and distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. With about 300,000 employees and more than 100 plants worldwide, the company's core and affiliated automotive brands include Aston Martin, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury and Volvo. Its automotive-related services include Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit www.fordvehicles.com. Go to http://media.ford.com for news releases and high-resolution photographs. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange