Brady Corporation Announces Earnings Conference Call; November 17, 2005 at 8:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. Central Time).

MILWAUKEE -- Brady Corporation (NYSE:BRC), will announce its fiscal 2006 first quarter financial results on Wednesday, November 16, 2005. A conference call will be held beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. Central Time) Thursday, November 17, 2005. Internet users will be able to access the webcast and virtual PowerPoint presentation at www.investor.bradycorp.com live and in replay.

Brady is an international manufacturer and marketer of identification and materials solutions, with products including labels, signs, precision die-cut materials, printing systems, software, and label-application and data-collection systems for electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical, and a variety of other markets. Founded in 1914, Brady is headquartered in Milwaukee and employs about 4,500 people in operations in the United States, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Canada. 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.