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BEI Technologies Declares Quarterly Dividend

17 November 1999

BEI Technologies Declares Quarterly Dividend

    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 -- The Board of Directors of BEI
Technologies, Inc. today announced its ninth consecutive
quarterly dividend of two cents per share.
    The dividend was declared November 17, 1999 and is payable on December 17,
1999 to shareholders of record December 2, 1999.
    BEI Technologies and its subsidiaries were spun-off from their parent, BEI
Electronics, Inc., at the end of September 1997 by distribution of the
outstanding stock of BEI Technologies to the stockholders of BEI Electronics.
BEI Technologies' former parent, BEI Electronics, paid 36 consecutive
quarterly dividends from its initial public offering in 1989 through September
1997.
    BEI Technologies, Inc., through its principal subsidiary, BEI Sensors &
Systems Company, Inc. is an established manufacturer of electronic sensors,
motors, actuators and motion control products used for factory and office
automation, medical equipment, military, aviation and space systems.  In
addition, sales to manufacturers of transportation equipment including
automobiles, trucks and off-road equipment have become a major component of
the Company's business in recent years.  The Company's micromachined quartz
yaw rate sensors are being used in advanced vehicle stability control systems
and a significant increase in the production of those sensors has been in
progress since the middle of 1998.  BEI also manufactures steering wheel
position sensors, seat-memory modules, throttle position and pressure sensors
and other devices used in automotive systems.  GyroChip(R) is a registered
trademark of BEI Sensors & Systems Company, Inc.