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Standard Products Launches Comprehensive Website

7 May 1998

Standard Products Launches Comprehensive Website

    DEARBORN, Mich., May 7 -- The Standard Products Co.
, a leading supplier to the worldwide automotive industry, has
launched a comprehensive corporate website at:
http://www.standardproducts.com.
    The site provides extensive business and financial information about
Standard Products, including a product section, profiles of the company's
international operations and partnerships, and a section on job and career
opportunities.  The site also provides extensive product information for
Standard Products' aftermarket Specialty Products Group (SPG).
    The investor section of the new site will prove particularly useful to
shareholders and prospective investors.  Viewers have access to current stock
quotes and charts, news and earnings releases, analysts' earnings estimates,
fundamental financial data, all SEC filings and the Company's summary annual
report.  The site also includes information on the Company's Dividend
Reinvestment Plan and a calendar listing important dates, such as the schedule
of earnings releases.  An e-mail link enables investors to contact the Company
to request hard copies of the summary annual report or other information.
    Reflecting the Company's global reach, Standard Products offers the option
of viewing the website in Spanish.  This is the first of a number of language
choices planned for the site in order to better serve international customers
and suppliers.
    Standard Products manufactures sealing, trim and vibration control systems
for the automotive original equipment industry in North and South America and
Europe.  Its Holm Industries subsidiary produces seals for the appliance and
building industries.  Its Oliver Rubber subsidiary manufactures tread rubber
and equipment for the truck-tire retread industry.

SOURCE  The Standard Products Co.