Remote Start Brings Added Convenience and Simplicity to Subaru’s Most Popular Lines of Vehicles

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., June 1, 2016 -- VOXX subsidiary, VOXXHirschmann, a tier-one supplier to global automotive original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), enhances its supply of its long-range remote start products to one of its long-standing customers, Subaru. With this new, multi-year contract award, VOXXHirschmann’s remote start technology is available for Subaru’s most popular line of vehicles including the new, Forester, Legacy and Outback models.

"We are pleased to expand our business relationship with Subaru through this new award for our long-range remote start technology, making it a new convenience option on the brand’s top-selling models," said Pat Lavelle, President and CEO of VOXX International Corporation. "This latest contract reflects the success of our ongoing efforts to meet the evolving requirements of our automotive customers and consumers seeking reliable and new, cost-effective in-vehicle technologies."

The new Subaru OEM contract was awarded to VOXXHirschmann in the fourth quarter of 2015 (CY) and includes the Company’s long-range remote start technology for all “push to start” 2014 – 2018 Forester and 2015 – 2019 Legacy and Outback models. The VOXXHirschmann long-range remote start system significantly enhances key fob range up to 1,000ft, 3 – 4 times the distance of the traditional original equipment key fobs.

This announcement follows the recent receipt of the 2015 Subaru Supplier Excellence Award given to the VOXXHirschmann team in recognition of its outstanding achievement in all areas of supplier performance, and is the second consecutive year in which VOXXHirschmann has received this honor.

Michael Schroeder, Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development with VOXXHirschmann added, “Both this latest award and the recognition bestowed upon VOXXHirschmann by Subaru is a testament to our teams’ hard work in satisfying and exceeding stringent customer requirements and expectations, while recognizing our ability to deliver consistently high levels of performance.  We’ve enjoyed a long-standing partnership with Subaru and look forward to driving innovation on behalf of their loyal customer base.  All of us at VOXXHirschmann remain committed to providing the automotive industry with the most innovative OEM solutions, whether remote starts, rear-seat infotainment, digital antennas and tuners, keyless entry products, and some of our newer developed products that will be coming to market within the next few years.”