Winnebago Industries Receives Annual Report Award

    FOREST CITY, Iowa--Nov. 1, 2001--Winnebago Industries, Inc. has received the "Best in the Industry" award for the Company's 2000 annual report in the Manufactured Housing/Recreation Vehicle division of the 2001 Nicholson Awards competition sponsored by the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC). Winnebago Industries was the sole recipient in this division. Award winners were grouped in 79 divisions with a total of 135 companies receiving awards world-wide. The Nicholson Awards judges rate the annual reports using four criteria: financial highlights of the past two years, financial summary, written content and design.
    "Winnebago Industries has worked extremely hard to make its annual report both user friendly and attractive in design," said Sheila Davis, Winnebago Industries' Public Relations/Investor Relations Manager. "It is our goal to provide investors and potential investors with a broad spectrum of information on Winnebago Industries to allow them to intelligently evaluate their investment opportunities. We're very pleased that a shareholder-based organization such as NAIC has recognized Winnebago Industries with this award."
    NAIC is a non-profit organization that is made up of investment clubs and individual investors. With over 635,000 members, NAIC's information programs are designed to help members become successful, long-term, lifetime investors.
    Winnebago Industries, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of motor homes that are self-contained recreation vehicles used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. Other products manufactured by the Company consist principally of a variety of component products for other manufacturers. The Company builds quality products with state-of-the-art computer-aided design and manufacturing systems on automotive-styled assembly lines. The Company believes its products conform to the most rigorous quality testing in the RV industry. The Company's common stock is listed on the New York, Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges and traded under the symbol WGO. Options for the Company's common stock are traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Visit Winnebago Industries' web site at www.winnebagoind.com/. For access to Winnebago Industries' investor relations material, to add your name to an automatic email list for Company news releases or for information on a new dollar-based stock investment service for the Company's stock, visit, www.winnebagoind.com/investor_relations.htm.