NASCAR Nextel Cup Driver Kyle Petty, No. 45 Wells Fargo Dodge Car to Appear at Raymour & Flanigan Furniture Big Flats Store

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 4 -- Raymour & Flanigan Furniture and Wells Fargo Financial Retail Services announced today that NASCAR Nextel Cup Driver Kyle Petty will be signing free autographs at Raymour & Flanigan Furniture's Big Flats location in Horseheads, N.Y., Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Petty's No. 45 Wells Fargo Dodge car also will be on display there from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The event will include a limited number of customer giveaways and a prize drawing for a Kyle Petty autographed racing helmet.

The appearance is being made possible through Raymour & Flanigan Furniture's business relationship with Wells Fargo Financial Retail Services, which provides Raymour & Flanigan Furniture's private-label credit card program. Wells Fargo & Company is a sponsor of Petty Enterprises.

What began as a small A-frame shop in the Piedmont of North Carolina, Petty Enterprises has grown into the most successful racing organization in motorsports history. Petty Enterprises' headquarters in Level Cross, N.C., is a sprawling 60,000-square-foot, high-tech racing facility that houses the No. 43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge team of newcomer Bobby Labonte and the No. 45 Wells Fargo Dodge of veteran driver Kyle Petty.

Headquartered in Liverpool, N.Y., Raymour & Flanigan Furniture was ranked in May 2006 by leading industry trade Furniture Today as the 11th-largest furniture retailer in the nation, based on 2005 revenue.

With 59 stores, five clearance centers, 14 customer service centers and two distribution centers, the retailer employs more than 3,500 associates throughout Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Raymour & Flanigan Furniture's complete catalog of pieces, an online room planner, showroom locator and background information are available at www.raymourflanigan.com.

Wells Fargo Financial Retail Services, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, specializes in providing consumer private-label and dual-line credit card programs to retailers in North America. Its parent is Wells Fargo Financial, a unit of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo Financial provides real estate- secured lending, automobile financing, consumer and private-label credit cards and commercial services to consumers and businesses. Wells Fargo Financial has $63 billion in assets, approximately 20,700 team members and operates in 48 states across the U.S., the 10 provinces of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. It is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. More information about Wells Fargo Financial is available at www.wellsfargofinancial.com.