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Wynn's International Announces 12.5% Increase in Regular Quarterly Dividend

11 February 1998

Wynn's International Announces 12.5% Increase in Regular Quarterly Dividend and Sets Annual Meeting of Shareholders

    ORANGE, Calif., Feb. 11 -- Wynn's International, Inc.
reported today that the Board of Directors had declared a regular
quarterly dividend of $0.06 per share of common stock, an increase of 12.5%
over the present rate of $0.0533 per share.  The quarterly dividend is payable
March 31, 1998 to stockholders of record on March 12, 1998.  This represents
the 92nd consecutive quarterly dividend payment since 1975.
    The Board of Directors also set April 29, 1998 as the date of the 1998
Annual Meeting of Shareholders, with shareholders of record on March 12, 1998
entitled to vote at such meeting.
    James Carroll, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said the increase in
the dividend rate was the fifth within the last five years.  He attributed the
increase to the Company's confidence in its financial position.
    Wynn's International, Inc., founded in 1939, is a worldwide supplier of
high quality 0-rings, sealing products, specialty chemical products, equipment
and related service programs, and builders hardware supplies.  The Company has
2,073 employees and is headquartered at 500 North State College Boulevard,
Suite 700, Orange, California 92868, telephone (714) 938-3700.

SOURCE  Wynn's International, Inc.