Channell Adds Peter J. Hicks to Board of Directors.

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TEMECULA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000

Channell Commercial Corp. (Nasdaq:CHNL) Tuesday announced that Peter J. Hicks has been elected as a member of the company's board of directors.

Hicks, a managing director of Linx Partners, an investment firm specializing in private industrial equity investments, has more than 23 years of investment banking experience.

William H. Channell Jr., president and chief operating officer said: "Peter Hicks brings a wealth of business and investment banking experience and we are very pleased he has agreed to join our board. Our objective is to have a wide variety of backgrounds and experience represented on the Channell board.

"Peter's corporate finance experience will be particularly helpful during this growth period at Channell."

Hicks, a managing director of Schroder & Co. Inc. from 1987 to 1999, was co-founder and global finance head of the firm's Industrial Manufacturing Group. During Hicks' tenure, the Industrial Manufacturing Group completed more than 200 corporate finance transactions primarily in the areas of industrial mergers and acquisitions and private and public capital raising.

Prior to joining Schroders in 1986, Hicks was a managing director in the Corporate Finance Department of Prudential Securities. During the 1985 and 1986 academic years, Hicks was an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia University Business School.

He holds a master of business administration degree from the Colgate Darden School of Business and the University of Virginia and a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University.

Hicks is a member of the advisory board of China Online, an Internet information company based in Chicago, and has served on the boards of Loan Pricing Corp. and Intermarket Inc. He is presently a member of the board of trustees of Wesleyan University and a member of the board of governors of Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, N.Y.

About Channell

Channell Commercial is a global designer and manufacturer of telecommunications equipment primarily supplied to telephone and broadband network operators worldwide.

Major product lines include a complete line of thermoplastic and metal fabricated enclosures, advanced copper termination and connectorization products, fiber optic cable management systems and coaxial-based passive RF electronics. With headquarters in Temecula, Channell currently operates its U.S. manufacturing facilities in California and a distribution facility in North Carolina.

International operations include manufacturing facilities in Toronto, London, Sydney, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Channell's customers have included telco and broadband service providers such as AT&T, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, GTE, British Telecom, Singapore Telecom, Telekom Malaysia, Telstra, Cable & Wireless, Rogers Canada, Shaw Communications, Optus, Cox Communications, Time Warner, Media One and TCI.

New Corporate Profile

A new eight-page Channell corporate profile can be viewed at www.channellcomm.com. The corporate profile includes illustrations of the Local Loop and typical Channell products in the Local Loop. It also includes a discussion of the company's markets, competitive position and growth strategy.

Forward-Looking Statements

Forward-looking statements contained within this news release are subject to many uncertainties in the company's operations and business environments. Examples of such uncertainties include customer demand, material costs, integration of acquired businesses and worldwide economic conditions, among others. Such uncertainties are discussed further in the company's annual report/10K and S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.