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One of the staple features of the SEMA Show, the New Products Showcase highlights the industry’s most recent innovations in performance, function and style. The Showcase moves to a larger location for 2009. 

SEMA Show organizers streamline exhibit rental agreement process and modify payment plan.

Recognizing that businesses within the specialty-equipment industry face unique insurance coverage needs, SEMA has partnered with Alliant Insurance Services to create the Specialty Equipment Insurance Alliance (SEIA), a program designed to assist SEMA-member companies in protecting their asset base, cash flow and employees’ welfare.

Exhibitors and buyers will benefit from substantially discounted hotel room rates—the lowest in six years—at nearly all Las Vegas hotels for Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week 2009.

One of the staple features of the SEMA Show, the New Products Showcase highlights the industry’s most recent innovations in performance, function and style.

The United States Treasury Department will provide auto suppliers with up to $5 billion in credit to help them continue operating while automakers restructure their businesses during a time of reduced sales. The program is limited to automakers that have received loans through the Treasury’s Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), currently General Motors and Chrysler and their direct suppliers.

Congressional lawmakers are once again considering legislation to create a nationwide "Cash for Clunkers" program. The latest bill (H.R. 1550) is entitled the “Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act” (CARS Act) and was introduced on March 17 by Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio).