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Simpson Industries, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend

22 February 2000

Simpson Industries, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend

    PLYMOUTH, Mich., Feb. 21 -- Simpson Industries, Inc.
announces that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly
dividend in the amount of $.10 per share.  The dividend is payable March 23,
2000 to shareholders of record on March 2, 2000.