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Exide Corporation Announces Second Fiscal Quarter Dividend

9 November 2000

Exide Corporation Announces Second Fiscal Quarter Dividend

    READING, Pa., Nov. 8 The Board of Directors of Exide
Corporation has voted a corporate cash dividend for its second
fiscal quarter of $.02 per share of common stock, payable November 30, 2000,
to shareholders of record on November 20, 2000.