He lives with his wifeand two sons in New York City

Essig will lead the initiative at Sangamon as President and CEO. Inaddition to executive level experience at a number of public and privatecompanies, Mr. Essig has extensive experience restructuring businesses andmanaging operational turnarounds for a number of private equity firms. "Marks world class experience with underperforming businesses allows us topursue acquisitions that face unique challenges or require balance sheetrestructurings," said Mr Bagley. "Sangamon will offer an alternative tofundamentally good businesses that find themselves in difficult times." Pfingsten Partners is actively seeking platform investments for its $525 millionFund IV and Sangamon Industries L.L.C. About Pfingsten PartnersPfingsten Partners is an operationally focused private equity firm founded in1989. From its headquarters in Chicago and offices in Hong Kong and Shenzhen,China, the firm builds better businesses through operational improvements,professional management practices, global capabilities and profitable businessgrowth rather than financial engineering.

Since completing its first investmentin 1991, Pfingsten Partners has acquired 64manufacturing, distribution andbusiness service companies For more information, visit NEW YORK, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The American National StandardsInstitute (ANSI), a private not-for-profit organization that administers andcoordinates the U.S. standardization and conformity assessment system, hasannounced the appointment of Mr. Michael Petosa as its new vice president ofinformation technology.Petosa assumed his new responsibilities on January 1,2009.A career professional in the development and delivery of IT applications andservices, Mr. Petosa previously served as the Institute's director ofinformation technology.He joined ANSI staff in 2004 following tenures aschief technical officer at Pencom Systems, Inc., an executive placement and ITconsulting firm, and as director of MIS (management information systems) atCareer Blazers, a staffing and computer training services firm."In the four years since he joined ANSI staff, Mike has played a leading rolein the development and delivery of IT applications and services to meet thegrowing needs of the Institute and our constituents," said S. Joe Bhatia, ANSIpresident and CEO."His reputation as a hands-on manager with strongtechnical skills and solid business acumen were a perfect match with ANSI'sneeds as we integrate strategic thinking in the IT area with our overallstrategic planning efforts." "The steadfast support that the Information Technology team has received fromeveryone in the ANSI federation has enabled us to excel in meeting our projectgoals year after year," said Petosa."I look forward to joining the seniormanagement team and bringing the IT perspective to the table as the Institutefocuses on creating innovative business solutions that are in line with ANSI'smission and goals and that meet the needs of our members and customers."Mr.

Petosa holds a Bachelor of Science and a master's degree in electricalengineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York.He lives with his wifeand two sons in New York City.ANSI's mission is to enhance U.S. representative to the International Organization forStandardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the InternationalElectrotechnical Commission (IEC), and is a U.S. representative to theInternational Accreditation Forum (IAF). SOURCEAmerican National Standards InstituteElizabeth Austin of the American National Standards Institute,1-212-642-4911. CHICAGO(Business Wire)Fitch Ratings will be introducing Rating Outlooks for Latin American structuredfinance transactions to provide more forward-looking information to the market.The Outlooks will be assigned to both international and regional local ratingsscales. Fitch addresses investor questions about these Outlooks in a specialreport released today titled 'Introducing Rating Outlooks for Latin AmericanStructured Finance Bonds', available at Fitch's Rating Outlook indicates the likely direction of any rating change overa one- to two-year period and may be Positive, Negative, Stable or,occasionally, Evolving.

Fitch will review Rating Outlooks concurrently with itsreview on a structured finance transaction. Rating Outlooks may be influenced byfactors that are quantitative, including performance relative to expectations,and by factors more qualitative in nature, including prospective economic andsector developments affecting collateral. Fitch will also supplement its Rating Outlooks with comments giving reasons forthe assigned or revised Outlooks similar in tone to its rationale for long-termrating changes so the market will have a better understanding of the potentialfuture performance of the tranches' ratings. Fitch will introduce Latin American structured finance Rating Outlooks bycountry and/or sector on a rolling basis as transactions are reviewed beginningin January 2009. However, full rollout will not be complete until the end ofsecond quarter of 2009. Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available onthe agency's public site, Published ratings, criteria andmethodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code ofconduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, complianceand other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code ofConduct' section of this site.