Teleflex Increases Dividend 13 Percent; Twenty-Four Consecutive Years of Increases

    PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.--April 27, 2001--Teleflex Incorporated announced today that its Board of Directors had declared an increase in the quarterly cash dividend from fifteen cents ($0.15) per share to seventeen cents ($0.17) per share of common stock. This dividend is payable June 15, 2001 to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 25, 2001. The new annual rate of 68 cents per share is an increase of 13 percent over the previous rate.
    Teleflex is a diversified industrial company with worldwide sales of more than $1.8 billion. Its businesses serve the automotive, marine, industrial, medical and aerospace industries. Teleflex has increased its cash dividend to shareholders in each of the 24 years since it began paying dividends in 1977. The company offers a Dividend Reinvestment & Stock Purchase Plan for direct-registered shareholders. For information about the Plan, call (800) 278-4353, or visit the company's Web site on the Internet at www.teleflex.com.