Andrew Completes Brazil Acquisition.

Business Editors

ORLAND PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2001

On 24 January 2001 Andrew Corporation (NASDAQ:ANDW) acquired the remaining 30% equity in its Andrew Industria e Comercio Ltda and Andrew Comercio e Servicos Ltda subsidiaries. The transaction was for a cash amount that has not been disclosed. Andrew originally acquired 51% of both companies on December 5, 1995 and raised its interest to 70% on 30 October, 1997.

Andrew Industria e Comercio Ltda and Andrew Comercio e Servicos Ltda are located in Sorocaba, approximately 60 miles west of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Following the 1995 acquisition, Andrew built a plant on 11 acres of the Sorocaba campus, adjacent to the existing site that manufactures terrestrial microwave antennas. The new building accommodates the manufacturing of wireless RF path products such as: HELIAX(R) coaxial cable, connectors, accessories, surge arrestors, and base station antennas. The new Sorocaba plant began cable production in June 1996 and is the successful hub of Andrew Corporation's South American manufacturing activity. In fiscal year 2000, Andrew Corporation's orders in Latin America grew by 43%, driven by wireless infrastructure expansion in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

Last year, wireless subscribers in Latin America grew by over 70% to more than 70 million, and the upcoming wireless license award in Brazil will further expand Andrew Corporation's growth opportunities. "We intend to secure a significant portion of Latin America's wireless infrastructure expansion business," said Sylvio Peres, Andrew Corporation's Vice President for Latin America wireless infrastructure sales. "We recently expanded our distribution network with a new facility in Tultitlan, Mexico, and now we've completed the acquisition of our two Brazilian facilities. The Latin American market is all about having good quality wireless RF products and being able to get them to our customers on time, every time. Our expanded manufacturing, together with our recently expanded distribution network, our distribution partners in Argentina, and our agents in Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, is now well-positioned to bring the best quality RF infrastructure products to the Latin American market."

Andrew Corporation's facilities in Brazil have ISO 9001 Quality System certificates and product certifications issued by ANATEL. Products manufactured at the Andrew Sorocaba plant include HELIAX foam-dielectric coaxial cables, connectors, accessories and elliptical waveguide; dry air pressurization systems; and microwave, ValuLine(R), base station, and earth station antennas. In addition to products, the company also provides installation services for turnkey construction of communication sites. A full curriculum of Andrew Institute training services is available free of charge at the Andrew Institute in Sorocaba or by prior arrangement at the customer site.

Major customers of Andrew Brazil include global OEMs such as Lucent, Ericsson, Nortel, Motorola, Siemens, Harris, NEC, and Alcatel. The company also supplies Brazilian long distance telephone operators such as Embratel-MCI, Telemar, Brasil-Telecom and country operators such as BellSouth-Peru, Telefonica-Peru, Telefonica-Argentina, Telecom-Argentina, Telmex-Mexico, and Antel-Uruguay.

Andrew Corporation is a global supplier of communications systems equipment and services. Major markets are wireless communications - which includes cellular, personal communications services, and land mobile radio - broadcast, and common carrier. Andrew is an S&P 500 company whose common stock trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market (R) under the symbol:ANDW.

For further information on Andrew products and services, including the text of this release, visit our Web site at http//:www.andrew.com