Featherlite Luxury Coaches Inks Agreement with the Golf Channel

SANFORD, Fla.--Jan. 21, 2004--

Featherlite(R) named the "Official Coach" and major sponsor of Network's youth golf program

Featherlite(R), Inc. is pleased to announce that its Featherlite Luxury Coach division has reached an agreement with The Golf Channel to be an official partner and major sponsor.

As part of the three-year agreement, Featherlite Luxury Coaches will be a sponsor of the Mutual of Omaha Drive, Chip & Putt Junior Challenge presented by The Golf Channel. The Featherlite Vantare(R) also is now the "Official Coach" of The Golf Channel, which is available throughout the United States, Canada and Asia through cable, satellite and wireless television providers.

As part of the agreement a Featherlite Vantare Prevost conversion luxury motorcoach will be used by the network's junior golf team as it tours North America. Each year the coach will log 50,000 miles visiting 100 communities in 40 states and Canada. Equipped with Internet hook-ups, phone lines, fax machine, TV and DVD equipment, as well as a lounge area, beds, shower and kitchen, the Featherlite coach will be a high technology communications center, mobile hotel and traveling billboard.

The 2004 Drive, Chip & Putt competitions begin Feb. 7 and continue through Oct. 23, 2003. The series will be aired on The Golf Channel from August through November.

"Featherlite Luxury Coaches looks forward to an exciting year as a major sponsor in the Drive, Chip & Putt program," Featherlite Luxury Coach Division President Jim Wooley said. "Anything we can do to help grow the game of golf by supporting this program is a proud day for us as a company."

Featherlite Luxury Coaches (www.fthr.com) is headquartered in Sanford, Florida, and builds personal custom coaches for individuals as well as executive coaches for companies and corporations. Among the professional golfers who have a Featherlite are John Daly and Davis Love III.

Time(R) magazine cited Featherlite Luxury Coaches and the Featherlite Vantare, as one of the nation's highest-end motorcoach builders. USA Today said Featherlite Vantare's were "like rolling Ritz Carltons." Custom-built Featherlite coaches have all the amenities of a fine yacht. They can include up to 50-inch plasma TVs, GPS navigation, internal and external entertainment systems, XM Satellite Radio and broadband Internet access via satellite, as well as exquisite living accommodations.

"We appreciate the support of Featherlite," The Golf Channel President David Manougian said. "Their contribution of a motorcoach certainly will help our junior golf staff and help generate awareness of our program across North America."

Newly named in 2004, the Mutual of Omaha Drive, Chip & Putt Junior Challenge presented by The Golf Channel provides a free and friendly opportunity for boys and girls to compete in a fun series of events to develop and test their golf skills. The program is targeted at children who have an interest in golf, regardless of their skill level or previous exposure to the game.

The Golf Channel (www.thegolfchannel.com), co-founded by Arnold Palmer, is available in more than 60 million homes throughout the United States, Canada and Japan. It features a programming schedule that includes more live golf coverage than any other network - an extensive blend of golf competition from around the world - as well as news, instruction and original specials. In addition to being the exclusive television home of the Nationwide Tour, European Tour and Canadian Tour, The Golf Channel is the exclusive cable home of the Champions Tour and televises other competition from the LPGA Tour, USGA, PGA of America, PGA Tour of Australasia and Sunshine Tour of Southern Africa.

About Featherlite

Featherlite(R), Inc. , headquartered in Cresco, Iowa, is a North American leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing high quality aluminum specialty trailers, specialized transporters, custom mobile marketing trailers and luxury coaches. Its Featherlite Luxury Coaches division manufactures the Featherlite Vantare H3-45 and XLII Prevost conversions. It is the nation's largest Prevost conversion manufacturer and is the exclusive Florida dealer for Foretravel Motorhomes. Besides its operations in Sanford, Fla., where its division headquarters is located, Featherlite Luxury Coaches maintains sales and service facilities in Mocksville, N.C, Pryor, Ok., and Cresco, Ia., and a west coast sales office in Coburg, Oregon. With these and 16 authorized service centers strategically located in the United States, Featherlite Luxury Coaches serves the needs of coach owners regardless of their brand affiliation. For more information, call 888-826-8273.