Lakeland Industries Announces the Acquisition of Pacific Helmets - Seite 2

Mr. Jenkins concluded, "We are thrilled to welcome Pacific to the Lakeland family."

Maynard Nexsen and Simpson Grierson acted as legal advisors to Lakeland. PwC Legal New Zealand acted as legal advisor to Pacific.

ABOUT PACIFIC HELMETS
Pacific Helmets is a leader in the design and manufacture of structural firefighting helmets, wildland firefighting helmets and many other safety helmets for rescue, paramedic, ATV and other applications. Pacific has the largest range of helmet models, styles and certifications of any international helmet manufacturer. Currently, Pacific Helmets produces 26+ key helmet models while also supporting a number of legacy models. This extensive range is possible as the Company uses a proprietary fiberglass-based shell construction method rather than the injection molding used by competitors. Pacific Helmets already sells to over 40 countries and has the potential to grow through the addition of new distributors, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere and emerging markets, and through innovative new products, affording opportunities to reach new customers and distributors. Pacific Helmets manages its entire manufacturing and assembly processes from its Whanganui, New Zealand manufacturing facilities and headquarters.

ABOUT LAKELAND
We manufacture and sell a comprehensive line of industrial protective clothing and accessories for the industrial and public protective clothing market. Our products are sold globally by our in-house sales teams, our customer service group, and authorized independent sales representatives to a network of over 1,600 global safety and industrial supply distributors. Our authorized distributors supply end users, such as integrated oil, chemical/petrochemical, automobile, transportation, steel, glass, construction, smelting, cleanroom, janitorial, pharmaceutical, and high technology electronics manufacturers, as well as scientific, medical laboratories and the utilities industry. In addition, we supply federal, state and local governmental agencies and departments, such as fire and law enforcement, airport crash rescue units, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and the Centers for Disease Control. Internationally, we sell directly to a mixture of end-users and industrial distributors, depending on the particular country and market. In addition to the United States, sales are made into more than 50 foreign countries, the majority of which were into China, the European Economic Community ("EEC"), Canada, Chile, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, India, Uruguay, Middle East and Southeast Asia. For more information concerning Lakeland, please visit the Company online at www.lakeland.com.