ADVISORY/Pennsylvania Resident Wins Sweepstakes Prize From Fingerhut Companies, Inc.

News & Assignment Editors/Lifestyle Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (May 30)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

27-Year-Old Andrea Johnson to Receive $50,000

      TO: Pennsylvania news editors, assignment editors and metro
        reporters

      FROM: Fingerhut Companies, Inc.

      WHAT: John Schlundt, marketing director for Fingerhut Companies
        Inc., will present 27-year-old Darby resident Andrea Johnson
        with a $50,000 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: Tuesday, May 30
          12:45 p.m.

      WHERE: Erin Pub
           36 W. Winona Ave.
           Norwood, Pa.
           Phone:  [phone]

      NOTES: Johnson currently resides in Darby, Pa., with her husband
        and two children. She's been a Fingerhut customer for several
        years and her winning entry came from a multi-mailer
        promotion. She plans to use some of her prize money to take
        her children to Disney World.

          Fingerhut has awarded more than 91,000 sweepstake prizes
        valued at more than $26 million. Johnson is the eighth major
        prize winner from Pennsylvania since the Fingerhut sweepstakes
        program began in 1983.

          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).