Brady Corporation Announces Earnings Conference Call; February 17, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. ET (9:30 a.m. Central Time).

MILWAUKEE -- Brady Corporation (NYSE:BRC), will announce its fiscal 2006-second quarter financial results on Friday, February 17, 2006. A conference call will be held beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET (9:30 a.m. Central Time) Friday, February 17, 2006. Internet users will be able to access the webcast and virtual PowerPoint presentation at www.investor.bradycorp.com live and in replay.

Brady Corporation is an international manufacturer and marketer of complete solutions that identify and protect premises, products and people. Its products help customers increase safety, security, productivity and performance and include high-performance labels and signs, safety devices, printing systems and software, and precision die-cut materials. Founded in 1914, the company has more than 300,000 customers in electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical, construction, education and a variety of other industries. Brady is headquartered in Milwaukee and employs about 5,000 people in operations in the United States, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Canada. Brady's fiscal 2005 sales were approximately $816 million. More information is available on the Internet at www.bradycorp.com.

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Brady Corporation's website at www.investor.bradycorp.com

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.