ADVISORY/Major New Cook Group Company Announcement.

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ADVISORY...for Friday (April 16)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Cook Incorporated

                           News Media Alert

WHAT:     Major new Cook Group company announcement

WHERE:    Indiana Enterprise Center, 1200 S. Patterson
          Bloomington, IN
          (Site of the former RCA/Thomson Electronics plant)
          Event will be held in large white tent in east parking lot

WHEN:     Friday, April 16, 1:30 p.m.

WHO:      Cook Group Chairman Steve Ferguson
          Indiana Governor Joe Kernan
          Cook Group executive Jerry Arthur
          Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan
          Monroe County Commissioner Joyce Poling
          Indiana University Vice President Bill Stephan