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Johnson Controls Increases Dividend for 25th Consecutive Year

17 November 1999

Johnson Controls Increases Dividend for 25th Consecutive Year

    MILWAUKEE, Nov. 17 -- The Directors of Johnson Controls, Inc.
today increased the quarterly cash dividend on common shares to
$.28 per share from $.25.  The dividend is payable January 5, 2000 to
shareholders of record December 15, 1999.
    With the increase, the indicated annual dividend rate for fiscal 2000 is
$1.12 up from $1.00 in 1999.  Johnson Controls has increased its dividend for
25 consecutive years.  It has paid consecutive dividends since 1885.
    "Today's increase reflects our record results in 1999, strong financial
position and confidence that we will achieve another year of double-digit
earnings growth in 2000," said James H. Keyes, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer.
    Johnson Controls, Inc., is a global market leader in automotive systems
and facility management and control.  In the automotive market, it is a major
supplier of seating and interior systems and batteries.  For nonresidential
facilities, Johnson Controls provides building control systems and services,
energy management and integrated facility management.  Johnson Controls,
founded in 1885, has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis.  Its sales for 1999
totaled $16.1 billion.
    The Company has made forward-looking statements in this document,
including market, sales, earnings and cash flow forecasts, that are subject to
risks and uncertainties.  For those statements, the Company cautions that
numerous important factors discussed here and in the Company's Form 8-K filing
(dated October 11, 1999), could affect the Company's actual results and could
cause its actual consolidated results to differ materially from those
expressed in any forward-looking statement made by, or on behalf of the
Company.