Brady Corporation Announces Earnings Conference Call; Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. ET, 9:30 a.m. CT.

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MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2003

Brady Corporation (NYSE:BRC), will announce its fiscal 2004, first quarter financial results on Tuesday, November 18, 2003. A conference call will be held beginning at 9:30 a.m. Central, November 18, 2003. Internet users will be able to access the Web cast at www.investor.bradycorp.com live and in replay.

Brady Corporation is an international manufacturer and marketer of complete identification solutions and specialty materials. Its more than 50,000 products include high performance labels, precision die-cut material, signs, software, printers and automatic identification and data collection systems. Founded in 1914,Brady is headquartered in Milwaukee and employees more than 3,300 people. For its fiscal year ending July 31, 2003, Brady's reported sales were $555 million.

For more information on Brady, visit our company's Web site: 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.