ADVISORY/Morning Sun Resident Wins Sweepstakes Prize From Fingerhut Companies, Inc.; 67-Year-Old Nina Hall to Receive $25,000.

News/Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (April 27)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

    TO: Iowa news editors, assignment editors and metro reporters

    FROM: Fingerhut Companies, Inc.

    WHAT: Beth Logsdon, Fingerhut's vice president of inventory and
        merchandising, will tomorrow present 67-year-old Iowa resident
        Nina Hall with a $25,000 sweepstakes award. She will arrive by
        limousine, accompanied by her close friends and family. The
        media is invited to cover the event and take pictures.

    WHEN: Thursday, April 27 5:45 p.m.

    WHERE: Pzazz Restaurant
           3001 Winegard Dr.
           Burlington, Iowa

    NOTES: Hall currently works as a private duty nurse and resides in
        Morning Sun, Iowa. She's been a Fingerhut customer for four
        years and her winning entry came from a multi-mailer
        promotion.

        Fingerhut has awarded more than 91,000 sweepstake prizes
        valued at more than $26 million. Hall is the second major
        prize winner from Iowa since the Fingerhut sweepstakes
        program began in 1986.

        Fingerhut is a leading database marketing company selling
        a broad range of products and services through catalogs,
        direct marketing and the Internet. The company is a wholly
        owned subsidiary of Federated Department Stores, Inc.
        (NYSE: FD).