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NEW CATALOG OFFERS VOCATIONAL EDUCATORS 23,000 ADDITIONAL WOODWORKING PRODUCT CHOICES


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, JANUARY 2005

(Casper, Wyoming) - Vocational/career and industrial arts/technology educators throughout the United States will soon be receiving copies of a greatly expanded 960-page Brodhead Garrett® 2005 Catalog that contains 600 new pages of Woodworker's Supply® products. Woodworker's Supply, Inc., is headquartered in Casper. The catalog offers thousands of woodworking products including previously unavailable portable power tools, machinery, safety and shop accessories, books and projects, hardware and much more.

Mansfield, Ohio-based Brodhead Garrett® and Woodworker's Supply® announced, in August 2004, a business arrangement to better offer the nation's public school shop programs and vocational and trade schools competitively priced woodworking tools, products and supplies. The catalog expansion as well as establishment of an Internet web site that allows school purchasing personnel to review and order products were part of that agreement. Under the arrangment, Brodhead Garrett® serves as the exclusive Woodworker's Supply® National Educational Distributor, while the latter acts as primary product supplier.

"Our more than 23,000 hand tools, power tools, machinery, safety equipment and quality items from companies like DELTA®, DeWalt®, Milwaukee®, Porter-Cable®, POWERMATIC® and Woodtek® greatly expand the product lines Brodhead Garrett® can offer, making it a more attractive supplier to schools," said Woodworker's Supply's President and Owner John Wirth, Jr., PhD.

In business for more than three decades, Woodworker's Supply, Inc., provides top quality woodworking tools, machinery, abrasives, adhesives, hardware, accessories and wood specialty products, worldwide, from stores and distribution centers in Casper, Wyoming, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Graham, North Carolina.

A division of educational products provider School Specialty, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCHS), 102-year-old Brodhead Garrett® offers woodworking, electronics, construction, metal manufacturing, automotive and technology tools and supplies to industrial arts, skilled trade and related technology education programs. The company supports its customers with both equipment and curricular support aimed at teachers' long- and short-term mission requirements.

FOR ADDITIONAL PRODUCT INFORMATION: Bernie Galing, Marketing Vice President, Woodworker’s Supply®, 505-797-1487 x3125 (bernieg@woodworker.com) or Gerald Beer, Sales And Marketing Director, Brodhead Garrett®, 419-589-1940 (gbeer@freybg.com).


Woodworker's Supply® Web Site: www.woodworker.com
Brodhead Garrett® Web Site: www.brodheadgarrett.com