Teleflex Declares Dividend

    PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.--Feb. 5, 2002--Teleflex Incorporated announced that its Board of Directors took action on February 4, 2002, to declare a cash dividend of seventeen cents ($0.17) per share of common stock. The dividend is payable March 15, 2002, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 25, 2002.
    Teleflex is a diversified industrial company with worldwide sales of more than $1.8 billion. Its businesses serve the aerospace, medical, automotive, marine and industrial markets. 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.