Winnebago Industries, Inc. Named to Baseline 500

FOREST CITY, Iowa--Winnebago Industries, Inc., a leading United States (U.S) motor home manufacturer, was named to Baseline magazine’s “Baseline 500” – an annual ranking of the best corporate managers of information. Winnebago Industries came in at number 84 in this year’s ranking.

“Winnebago Industries is honored to be named to the Baseline 500,” said Winnebago Industries Chairman of the Board and CEO Bruce Hertzke. “Our information technology department is vital to the success of our organization. The majority of our software is home grown, and we take great pride in developing it to meet our specific needs. We’re pleased our IT department and our Company can be recognized for adding business value for our shareholders.”

Winnebago Industries was also one of the companies profiled as part of the Baseline 500. To read the complete article, click on http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2037045,00.asp.

“The Baseline 500 is truly the ultimate test of information management and recognizes Winnebago Industries’ information technology efforts, which have delivered on what matters most: added business value,” said John McCormick, editor of Baseline magazine.

Publicly traded companies that make up the Baseline 500 are determined by each company’s Information-Value Added score, which is profit left after subtracting the cost of capital invested by shareholders, as well as by Information Productivity, which is Information-Value added divided by a company’s cost – selling, general and administrative expense.

Published by Ziff Davis Media, Baseline magazine is a practical guide to costing and managing the deployment of leading-edge information technology.

About Winnebago Industries, Inc.

Winnebago Industries, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of motor homes, self-contained recreation vehicles used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. The Company builds quality motor homes under the Winnebago and Itasca brand names with state-of-the-art computer-aided design and manufacturing systems on automotive-styled assembly lines. The Company’s common stock is listed on the New York, Chicago and NYSE Arca Exchanges and traded under the symbol WGO. Options for the Company’s common stock are traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. For access to Winnebago Industries’ investor relations material, to add your name to an automatic email list for Company news releases or for information on a dollar-based stock investment service for the Company’s stock, visit, www.winnebagoind.com/investor.html.