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CRESCO, Iowa----Featherlite, Inc.

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Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
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In addition, he will retain his sales and marketing
management responsibilities for the Company .

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"Eric has been instrumental in building a comprehensive and highly
effective sales and marketing structure at Featherlite," said Conrad
Clement, Featherlite President and CEO.
- Operators are allocating more space to fashion and a number of new
airport developments, such as Munich's new terminal two, feature a major
fashion component.

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Featherlite Inc. Announces Promotion of Eric Clement to Vice President + General Manager Trailer Division

Tracy will continue to oversee the
Trailer Division as well as work with Jim Wooley, President and COO of
the Featherlite Coach Division. Through its
Featherlite Vantare(R) product line, Featherlite is the "Official
Luxury Motorcoach" of NASCAR (R), IRL and SPORTSCAR.

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Vice President of Sales Eric
Clement has been promoted by the board of directors to the newly
created position of Vice President + General Manager, Trailer
Division. Featherlite also sponsors many equine and livestock events and
its products are displayed in over 1,000 fairs, trade shows, races and
other events throughout North America each year.

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The growth of specialist stores in all regions has
also been a plus factor for fashion.

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Clement, 35, joined the Company in 1990., is an innovative leader in designing ,
manufacturing and marketing high quality aluminum specialty trailers,
transporters and luxury motorcoaches. It
also contains a comprehensive directory with contacts details for leading
travel retailers of fashion goods and suppliers

- With signs of a recovery in the luxury goods sector , and assuming a
return to steady growth in international travel, the travel-retail
fashion sector is forecast to expand strongly over the next few years. Many operators are realising the sales potential of fashion
goods in travel-retail make it worthwhile overcoming such challenges .

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About Featherlite

Featherlite, Inc .
- Retail presentation is improving and luxury brands that had restricted
their travel -retail presence to downtown duty-free stores, including
Chanel, Prada and MaxMara, are now entering the airport channel.

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Research and Markets: Global Travel-Retail Market for Fashion Market Examined in Latest Report

- Categories which previously received little attention such as underwear
and shoes are now becoming more prominent in travel-retail alongside the
more established accessories and leathergoods products.

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Conrad Clement said the Company will continue to maintain its
focus on top line revenue growth, increased margins and enhanced
shareholder value. With more that 75 percent of its
business in the leisure, recreation and entertainment categories,
Featherlite has highly diversified product lines offering hundreds of
standard model and custom-designed aluminum specialty trailers,
specialized transporters, mobile marketing trailers and luxury
motorcoaches .

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- Problems with logistics and margins that have restricted the growth of
the fashion category to some extent in the past are now becoming less
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In his new duties, Clement will oversee entire Trailer Division
operations .
Eric will report to Tracy Clement, Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer (COO ).researchandmarkets.

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of The Global Travel-Retail Market for Fashion to their offering
This new product sector report is the first detailed analysis of the
travel-retail market for fashion, covering clothing, accessories (sunglasses,
scarves and ties), shoes, bags, small leather goods and luggage. It features
extensive new research carried out by Raven Fox Research among suppliers,
retailers and airport authorities exclusively for the report .

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"This promotion reflects the
board's confidence in Eric, as well as the need to address the growing
demands of the Company.
Featherlite(R) is the "Official Trailer" of NASCAR (R), Champ
Car(R), ARCA, Indy Race League (IRL) and World of Outlaws and a
sponsor of Grand American Racing, Trans-Am and American Le Mans(R)
Series.

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trailer and luxury coach manufacturer ,
has announced a key executive promotion. In 1996, following his
tenure as Vice President of Operations , he was named Vice President of
Sales. Gary Ihrke, Vice President of
Operations for the Trailer Division, will report to Eric. The report
includes sales trends and sales forecasts by region and category to 2008.

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He has been involved in many areas of
manufacturing management, and I look forward to his expanded
involvement as we continue to advance the most exciting specialty
trailer products in the industry.fthr.

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The promotion is effective today. For more
information about the Company , please visit Featherlite website
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