GIDDINGS & LEWIS AUTOMATION CONTROL REACHES AGREEMENT WITH KAMAN INDUSTRIAL
TECHNOLOGIES TO DISTRIBUTE GIDDINGS & LEWIS PRODUCTS

Fond du Lac, WI, January 16, 1995 -- Giddings & Lewis Automation Control
recently reached an agreement with Kaman Industrial Technologies for Kaman
to distribute Giddings & Lewis Automation Control products in the Western
United States.

Kaman Corporation is a widely diversified, Fortune 500 company providing
high technology products and services to industrial, commercial and
defense markets. Kaman Industrial Technologies, a subsidiary of Kaman
Corporation and one of North America's largest Industrial distributors,
provides more than 800,000 products to a wide range of industries
including pulp and paper, food processing, mining, aerospace,
manufacturing, agriculture, primary metal, automotive, heavy industry, and
many others. To complement its already extensive line of Industrial
products, Kaman will sell and service Giddings & Lewis programmable
controls, motors, drives, and operator interfaces.

Kaman has 80 distributor branches in the states of Arizona, California,
Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington,
and Wyoming where it will distribute Giddings & Lewis products.

Headquartered in Fond du Lac, WI, Giddings & Lewis is the largest supplier
of automated machining and assembly systems in North America and one of
the largest in the world. In addition to programmable industrial
computers, major product lines include computer numerical controls, smart
manufacturing systems, flexible transfer lines, flexible inspection
systems, automated assembly systems, high-precision automated machine
tools, measuring systems, and other related products and services. Its
stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol GIDL.

Giddings & Lewis
666 SOUTH MILITARY ROAD, P.O. BOX 1658
FOND DU LAC, WI 54936-1658 U.S.A.
TEL. (414) 921-7100, FAX (414) 929-4669

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