WD-40 Company Webcast for Annual Shareholder Meeting; Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 2:00 p.m. PST, 5 p.m. EST

Business Wire, Dec 11, 2002

Business Editors

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2002

WD-40 Company (Nasdaq:WDFC), will webcast its 2002 Annual Shareholder Meeting on Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 2:00 P.M. PST on its website at www.wd40.com/ir. The Company will also provide a slide presentation on its website for investors to follow the presentation. The presentation will discuss the Company's business highlights for fiscal year 2002.

-- Quarterly Earning

-- Forcast for FY2003

The Annual Shareholder Meeting will be held at the Mission Valley Hilton Hotel, 901 Camino del Rio South in San Diego, California at 2pm PST.

This meeting is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at WD-40 Company's web site at www.wd40.com in the Investor Relations section.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others.

About WD-40 Company

WD-40 Company is a global consumer products company with brands that deliver above expectation performance at extremely good value to end users who buy in a variety of trade channels. WD-40 Company produces a variety of multi-purpose lubricants, including the familiar WD-40(R) and 3-IN-ONE(R) Oil as well as the Lava(R)and Solvol(R) brands of heavy duty hand cleaners, and the household brands X-14(R), 2000 Flushes(R), Carpet Fresh(R) and Spot Shot(R). WD-40 Company markets its products in more than 160 countries worldwide, and recorded sales of $216.8 million in 2002.