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| | The Advantage Funding Group of Companies Announces Sale of 80 Percent of Its Stock to Marubeni Motor Holdings, Inc. |
 | | Advantage Funding, one of the largest independent vehicle and equipment leasing and finance companies to the ground transportation industry, originates and services a $100 million loan and lease portfolio specializing in the limousine, funeral, commercial coach and paratransit industries. |
 | | Tsutomu Yamamoto, COO of Marubeni America Corp., and the President of Marubeni Motor Holdings, stated, "Marubeni sought to acquire an industry leader that could support our auto related and finance businesses, and we are fortunate to have been able to acquire Advantage Funding." |
 | | Marubeni Corporation, the world's 15th largest company according to Forbes International 500 in 2003 with total volume of trading transactions of $74 billion, was founded in 1858 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with more than 5,200 employees in 74 countries. |
| www.theautochannel.com /news/2006/06/16/011548.html (390 words) |
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