Spear & Jackson Australia Receives $960K Order With Super Cheap Auto

    BOCA RATON, Fla.--Feb. 27, 2003--Spear & Jackson (OTCBB:SJCK) announced that its division, Spear & Jackson, Australia just received an AUD$960,000 Australia order for Power Tools from Super Cheap Auto.
    Super Cheap Auto is Australia's fastest growing auto parts, accessories and handman products retailer. Super Cheap Auto has over 200 stores, located in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria Northern Territory and Tasmania.
    Spear & Jackson, based in Sheffield, England is one of the largest and oldest tool manufacturers in the UK. Spear & Jackson's roots go back to the 1740's as one of the premium tool manufacturers.
    Spear & Jackson manufactures and distributes tools, garden tools, metrology equipment, woodworking tools and magnetic equipment. They sell their products under Spear & Jackson, Neill Tools, Bowers, Robert Sorby, Moore and Wright, Eclipse (Blades), WHS, Tyzack, and Eclipse Magnetics Brands. Spear & Jackson has divisions throughout England, France and Australia. Spear & Jackson distributes its products throughout the world.

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    Any forward-looking statements made in this release represent management's best judgment as to what may occur in the future. Various economic and competitive factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in such forward-looking statements, including some factors which will be outside of the control of the company, such as successful completion and consolidation of the acquisitions, such as consumer spending patterns, availability of consumer and commercial credit, interest rates, currency exchange rates, inflation rates, adverse weather, energy costs, freight costs, the level of residential and commercial construction and the costs of raw materials, along with other specific factors with respect to the company's businesses set forth in the company's responses and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Interested parties should review the "forward-looking statement" sections in the Spear & Jackson reports filed with Securities & Exchange Commission, including the annual report on form 10K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2002.