ProQuest Company Announces Conference Call to Discuss Voyager Acquisition Plans

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Dec. 1, 20044, 2004--ProQuest Company, , a leading electronic publisher for the education and automotive markets will hold a conference call today, December 14, 2004 at 12:00 pm Eastern Time to discuss its acquisition plans announced this morning.

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at ProQuest Company's web site at www.proquestcompany.com.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

About PQE

ProQuest Company ,based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is a leading publisher of information solutions for the education, automotive and power equipment markets. We provide products and services to our customers through two business segments: Information & Learning and Business Solutions. Through our Information & Learning segment, which primarily serves the education market, we collect, organize and publish content from a wide range of sources including newspapers, periodicals and books. Our Business Solutions segment is primarily engaged in the delivery in electronic form of comprehensive parts and service information to the automotive market. Its products transform complex technical data, like parts catalogs and service manuals, into easily accessed electronic information. ProQuest Company was recently named one of the nation's 200 best small companies by Forbes magazine, and one of the 100 fastest growing technology companies in the United States by Business 2.0 magazine.