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Exide Corporation Announces First Fiscal Quarter Dividend

29 August 2000

Exide Corporation Announces First Fiscal Quarter Dividend

    READING, Pa., Aug. 29 Members of the Exide Corporation
Board of Directors have voted a corporate cash dividend for its
first fiscal quarter of $.02 per share of common stock, payable September 15,
2000, to shareholders of record on September 5, 2000.