Gibraltar Names Ken Houseknecht Vice President of Communications and Investor Relations

Business Wire, May 27, 2004

Business Editors

BUFFALO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2004

Gibraltar (Nasdaq: ROCK) today announced that it has named Ken Houseknecht Vice President of Communications and Investor Relations, effective immediately.

Houseknecht, 46, had been Director of Investor Relations since joining Gibraltar in 1996. He began working with the company in 1993 as a part of the team working on Gibraltar's initial public offering.

During his more than 20-year career in investor and public relations, Houseknecht has worked with a number of publicly traded companies. He has also managed public relations, media relations, internal communication, and corporate communication programs for a wide range of organizations and companies, on both the corporate and agency sides of the business.

Houseknecht is an active member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and he was elected Founding President of NIRI's Virtual Chapter in 2003. He is also an active and accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), where he is a former board member of the Buffalo/Niagara Chapter of the PRSA.

He is past president of the Mental Health Association of Erie County, past president of the Foundation of the Mental Health Association of Erie County, and a former Executive Committee member of the Better Business Bureau of Western New York (where he chaired the public relations and marketing committee). For seven years (1995-2002), he chaired the Fundraising Committee for Compeer of Greater Buffalo, helping to raise nearly $300,000 for that organization.

Houseknecht received his bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from Canisius College.

He and his wife, Diana, live in Hamburg with their three children, Julia, Alaina, and Caleb.

Gibraltar is a manufacturer and distributor of more than 5,000 residential and commercial building products, one of North America's leading metal processors, and North America's second-largest commercial heat treater. The Company serves approximately 10,000 customers in a variety of industries in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. It has approximately 4,000 employees and operates 70 facilities in 26 states, Canada, and Mexico.

Information contained in this release, other than historical information, should be considered forward-looking, and may be subject to a number of risk factors, including: the impact of changing steel prices on the Company's results of operations; changing demand for the Company's products; risks associated with the integration of acquisitions; and changes in interest or tax rates.

Editor's note: a photo of Ken Houseknecht is available via email.

Gibraltar's news releases, along with comprehensive information about the Company, are available on the Internet, at www.gibraltar1.com.