Hutchinson Technology Announces Earnings Conference Call Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 5:00 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. CT

Business Wire, Jan 15, 2003

Business Editors

HUTCHINSON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2003

Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (Nasdaq: HTCH) will hold a conference call to discuss its results for its fiscal first quarter on Tuesday, January 21, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (4:00 p.m. Central Time). A news release reporting results for the period will be issued at approximately 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (3:00 p.m. Central Time) on January 21, 2003.

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Hutchinson Technology's web site at www.htch.com. A replay of the call will also be available beginning at approximately 6:00 p.m. CST on January 21 until 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 24. To access the replay, dial 800-633-8284(domestic) or 402-977-9140 (international) and enter 21088547# at the reservation number prompt.

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.

About Hutchinson Technology Incorporated

Hutchinson Technology is the leading worldwide supplier of suspension assemblies for disk drives. Hutchinson Technology's BioMeasurement Division provides health professionals with simple, accurate methods to measure the oxygen in tissue.