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BEI Technologies Declares Quarterly Dividend

17 February 2000

BEI Technologies Declares Quarterly Dividend

    SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17 -- The Board of Directors of BEI
Technologies, Inc. today announced its tenth consecutive
quarterly dividend of two cents per share.
    The dividend was declared February 16, 2000 and is payable March 17, 2000
to shareholders of record March 2, 2000.
    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 and scientific equipment, military, aviation and space
systems, and transportation equipment including automobiles, trucks and
off-road equipment.  The Company's micromachined quartz yaw rate sensors are
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 electronic 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.