Rowland Ward Press Release

July 2008 – For immediate release

Rowland Ward wishes to advise its customers and supporters that it recently was informed by SCI that, despite our attendance at and support of the past 11 conventions, they will no longer allow Rowland Ward to exhibit at their annual convention in Reno, Nevada. This was not entirely unexpected as the convenor of the previous convention unjustly accused Rowland Ward of being owned in part by and/or sharing its profits with two US organizations. Jane Halse, the managing director of Rowland Ward, wrote to SCI specifically denying these false accusations but, to date, has not received the courtesy of a reply despite a further reminder in this regard.

We naturally regret the decision by SCI as we have never seen ourselves as competitors to them but rather complementary in our support of hunters and hunting worldwide. Rowland Ward will, nevertheless, exhibit at the Dallas Safari Club, NRA, Wild Sheep Foundation and at least one other show in the United States next year.

To better serve our customers and supporters in North America, we have decided to move our current office from Fredericksburg, Virginia, where it has been ably run by Lucinda Lorei for the past six years, to Dallas, Texas where Haskell Stricklen, who worked with Gray Thornton, immediate past Executive Director of Dallas Safari Club, has accepted the task to head up Rowland Ward’s renewed expansion in this region. The move is designed to place Rowland Ward geographically closer to the centre of its current business and we believe that Haskell is the right person, with the right talents, in the right place to help Rowland Ward to implement its current strategic plans.

The office move will take place during August, 2008 and, despite the careful planning that has gone into making the move as smooth and trouble free as possible, we are aware that the best laid plans of mice and men “gang oft aglee” and we would ask you to bear with us if our normal service is not quite up to scratch for a few days during this time.

The official launch date for our new office and showroom in Dallas, Texas will be communicated shortly. We have a number of exciting developments specific to the US market and look forward to communicating these to you.

For any further information please contact:

Richard Flack (Rowland Ward Marketing Director)

rich@rowlandward.com

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