Quixote Corporation to Webcast Fourth Quarter Results

CHICAGO, Aug. 6, 2003 -- Quixote Corporation , a world leader in transportation safety products and services, intends to release its fourth quarter and year-end results on the morning of Tuesday, August 12, 2003. In conjunction with this release, management of Quixote Corp. will host a conference call, which will be simultaneously broadcast live over the Internet. Les Jezuit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Daniel Gorey, Chief Financial Officer, will host the call.

                        10:00 A.M. (EASTERN TIME)
                         TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2003

                        http://www.quixotecorp.com/

Please allow extra time prior to the call to visit the site and download the streaming media software required to listen to the Internet broadcast. The online archive of the broadcast will be available on the http://www.quixotecorp.com/ website.

Quixote Corporation, (www.quixotecorp.com), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Quixote Transportation Safety, Inc., is the world's leading manufacturer of energy-absorbing highway crash cushions, electronic wireless measuring and sensing devices, weather forecasting stations, computerized highway advisory radio transmitting systems, intelligent intersection control systems, fixed and variable electronic message signs, flexible post delineators and other highway safety products.