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Watts Industries, Inc. Names Michael Fifer President of Watts Regulator Company

Business Wire, Dec 4, 1998

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1998--Watts Industries, Inc. (NYSE:WTS) announced that Michael O. Fifer, age 41, was named President of Watts Regulator Company. At $280 million in sales, Watts Regulator is the largest division and founding company of Watts Industries, Inc., an $800 million manufacturer of valves for the plumbing and heating, water quality, oil and gas, and industrial markets.

Mr. Fifer brings a broad range of experience to Watts Regulator from previous career assignments in engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, acquisitions and divestitures, and general management. During the past four and one-half years at Watts, Mr. Fifer has served as President of Jameco, Henry Pratt and Watts Canada. Concurrent with those assignments, Mr. Fifer served as Vice President of Corporate Development and completed 11 acquisitions and 3 divestitures for Watts Industries and had responsibility at the corporate level for Anderson Barrows, Pibiviesse S.p.A. and Watts Industries Europe.

Mr. Fifer is a 1985 graduate of the Harvard Business School and a 1978 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Watts Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells an extensive line of valves for the Plumbing and Heating, Water Quality, Industrial, Steam, and Oil and Gas markets.

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