The ASU Group Silver ESOP Award Winner

PRESS RELEASE

April 24, 2008 – The ASU Group has been named a Silver ESOP Award winner by The ESOP Association. The Silver ESOP Awards recognize companies for their work in sustaining their ESOP for 25 years or more.

The ESOP Association is the national trade association for companies with employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) and the leading voice in America for employee ownership.

Based in Okemos, MI, The ASU Group is an employee owned corporation that provides services to the insurance industry and self-insured organizations.

“We are proud to have been named a Silver ESOP Award Winner. We believe strongly in the power of employee ownership and are pleased to have not only our company but our employees recognized for their efforts”, commented Tara O’Connor LaRose, President.

“I consider it an honor, and a statement of significance, to recognize The ASU Group as a Silver ESOP Company,” said J. Michael Keeling, President of The ESOP Association.

“The ASU Group evidences that with proper management and planning, a company can remain employee owned, benefiting all employees for years to come.”

As a Silver Award Winner, The ASU Group will be noted at The ESOP Association’s Annual Conference in May and highlighted at the Annual Awards Banquet held on the evening of May 12th. To be named a winner of a Silver ESOP Award, a company must be a member of The ESOP Association.

The core cause of The ESOP Association is the belief that employee ownership will improve American competitiveness, increase productivity through greater employee participation, and strengthen our free enterprise economy.