Walt Maddox, Tuscaloosa mayor; Bob Lundell, City Councilman; Hisayoshi Fuwa, president and CEO of JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc.; Brad Springer, CFO, JVC America Inc.; Hiroyoshi Yoshikawa, president and CEO, JVC America Inc.; Sho Yamakoshi, senior manager, sales planning, Kenwood USA Corp.—Communications Sector

Suwanee, GA:  Kenwood recently donated 50professional LMR mobiles and amateur radios to the City of Tuscaloosa, Ala.  In accepting the radios, Tuscaloosa mayor Walt Maddox indicated that the radios would be used in their city’s emergency response efforts for what has become one of the worst tornadoes in Alabama history.

Kenwood is a worldwide provider of mobile and portable radios and custom infrastructure systems to public safety, government and commercial users.  Founded in the United States in 1961, Kenwood U.S.A. is the largest subsidiary of Kenwood Corporation of Japan (founded 1946), which has 11 domestic and 22 subsidiaries around the world serving the needs of communications, home electronics and car entertainment customers. For detailed information, call Kenwood USA at 1-800-950-5005 or visit Kenwood at http://www.kenwoodusa.com.