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COOPER WIRING DEVICES RECEIVES NAED AWARD FOR BEST DIRECT PROMOTION OF 2003

Long Island City, New York, August 15, 2003 – Cooper Wiring Devices has received a 2003 National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) "Best of the Best" marketing award for its direct promotion campaign "The New Power in Wiring Devices." The award is being announced in NAED's TED Magazine in August.

Each year NAED sponsors its "Best of the Best" marketing awards competition for distributors and manufacturers. More than 40 separate category awards were presented and awarded at the NAED Annual Meeting on May 21, 2003 in Atlanta.

Cooper Wiring Devices (CWD) launches its integrated marketing program in 2002. Key elements in the program were a new branding promotion, a new 600-page catalog and CD-ROM catalog plus direct mail to customers. Essentially the effort introduced the new CWD brand to electrical distributors, contractors and specifiers across the U.S. Along with a significant advertising campaign, the direct promotion program highlighted CWD brand identity as a new division of Cooper Industries.

Headquartered in Long Island City, New York, Cooper Wiring Devices is a division of Cooper Industries that provides over 10,000 electrical wiring device products for industrial, commercial and residential applications. Web site: www.cooperwiringdevices.com.


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