Leggett & Platt Announces 3Q02 Earnings Conference Call, Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 9:00 a.m. ET/8 a.m. CT

Business Wire, Sept 27, 2002

Business Editors

CARTHAGE, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2002

Leggett & Platt, Incorporated (NYSE:LEG), a Fortune 500 diversified manufacturer of engineered products serving several major markets, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter results and 2002 fourth quarter outlook on Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.m. Central Time).

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed in the Investor Relations section of Leggett's web site at www.leggett.com.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both 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. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.

Leggett & Platt is North America's leading independent manufacturer of the following: a) components for residential furniture and bedding; b) retail store fixtures and point of purchase displays; c) components for office furniture; d) non-automotive aluminum die castings; e) drawn steel wire; f) automotive seat support and lumbar systems; and g) bedding industry machinery for wire forming, sewing and quilting. Leggett's common stock (symbol LEG) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index.