Oshkosh Among 11 Industrial Stocks to Make Top 100

21 August 2000

Oshkosh Truck Earns Spot on Fortune's List of Fastest-Growing Companies

    OSHKOSH, Wis. - Oshkosh Truck Corporation is ranked the 56th fastest growing company by Fortune Magazine. Oshkosh was one of just 11 industrial companies to be included in the Top 100 listed in the September 4 issue.

    Oshkosh ranked 29th on the list in three-year earnings per share growth with 88 percent. The company delivered a 58-percent total return to shareholders over three years and revenue grew by 33 percent annually. Fortune's list represents the 100 fastest-growing companies based in the United States. Companies are selected based on a combination of earnings per share growth, revenue growth and total stock-market return.

    "We're delighted to be placed among the U.S. 'super performers,'" said Robert G. Bohn, chairman, president and chief executive officer Oshkosh. "With significant share price appreciation over the past few years, we're particularly proud that a 90-year-old manufacturing company can perform with the fastest of the dotcoms. It's a particular honor to be among this elite group of 11 industrial companies.

    "Oshkosh Truck is a diversified company that is highly-focused within each of its markets and we have a customized growth strategy for each of those markets. Like all the best companies today, we use the newest technologies to engineer and manufacture products that our customers tell us they need."

    This honor is the third business performance acknowledgment the company has received in recent months. Fortune also listed Oshkosh in its list of Fortune 1000 companies and the company is now included in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index.

    Oshkosh Truck's recent performance moved the company up 16 places over its 1999 ranking.

    Oshkosh Truck Corporation is a leading manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies for the defense, fire and emergency, concrete placement and refuse hauling markets. Products are marketed under the Oshkosh, Pierce and McNeilus brand names. The company is headquartered in Oshkosh, Wis., and has annual sales of $1.165 billion.