ProQuest Company Announces Q2'05 Earnings Conference Call

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--July 21, 2005--ProQuest Company, , a leading electronic publisher of information solutions for the education and automotive markets, will hold a conference call to discuss second quarter 2005 results on Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 5:00 pm Eastern Time.

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 is based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is a leading electronic publisher of information solutions to the education and automotive 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 aggregate and publish value-added 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. It also provides dealers in the power equipment markets with management systems that enable them to manage their inventory, customer service and other aspects of their businesses.